Exmouth - Ashburton - Surrounds vs Tom Price

Exmouth - Ashburton - Surrounds and Tom Price are two distinct Western Australian areas with very different profiles for First Nations residents. In Tom Price, typical First Nations household income is $3,014, far higher than the $778 seen in Exmouth - Ashburton - Surrounds. Education levels also differ, with 47.9% of First Nations people in Tom Price completing Year 12 compared to 36.6% in Exmouth - Ashburton - Surrounds. Conversely, First Nations languages are far more common in Exmouth - Ashburton - Surrounds, where 29.7% of people speak one, compared to 13.3% in Tom Price.

Both areas have tracked similarly since 2011 in terms of basic accessibility. They are both mostly car-dependent and share almost identical levels of amenity access, with about 53% of homes in each area having a 15-minute-city walkshed. Neither area has any homes within a 10-minute walk of public transport. While Tom Price has far more street intersections per square kilometre, both places have very similar terrain slopes.