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Inner Regional Australia · Remoteness Area

Health & Disability in Inner Regional Australia

Long-term health conditions and the need for help with everyday activities.

A health gap marks Inner Regional Australia, where people are far more likely to live with long-term illness than those across the rest of the country. About 33.3% of residents have a long-term health condition, which is well above the national figure of 27.7%. This trend extends to mental health, which is also more common here than in other areas.

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📍 Inner Regional Australia, Remoteness Area

Where Inner Regional Australia sits — People with a long-term health condition

33.3%

All remoteness area areas, 2021. The marker is Inner Regional Australia — higher than 85% of areas.

Health conditions

Long-term conditions people report.

Arthritis is the most common long-term condition at 11.8%, followed by mental health at 10.8% and asthma at 9.3%. While 57% of people report no long-term health issues, the rate of mental health conditions is a little above the Australian average.

Number of long-term health conditions

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In Inner Regional Australia, None is the majority at 63%; One condition is next at 23%.

None 57.0% One condition 20.9% Two conditions 7.7% Three or more 4.6%

Long-term health conditions reported

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Inner Regional Australia splits fairly evenly between Arthritis (19%) and Mental health (18%), with Asthma at 15%.

Arthritis 11.8% Mental health 10.8% Asthma 9.3% Other condition 9.0% Diabetes 5.5% Heart disease 5.3% Cancer 3.7% Lung condition 2.9% Stroke 1.3% Dementia 0.8%

Need for assistance

People needing help with daily activities.

Help with daily activities is needed by 7.6% of the population, a figure that is among the highest for similar areas. This need has risen by 2.2 percentage points since 2011 and sits a little above the national figure of 5.8%.

People needing help with daily activities

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7.6% ▲ +39.6%

Higher than 99% of remoteness area areas.

Share of people with a core-activity need for assistance due to disability or age.

Sources

  • Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Health & Disability in Inner Regional Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA31/inner-regional-australia/topic/health-disability