18.3%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people with one or more selected long-term health conditions.
Browns Creek · Suburb / Locality
Health & Disability in Browns Creek
Long-term health conditions and the need for help with everyday activities.
Much lower rates of chronic illness than most similar areas make Browns Creek a remarkably healthy place. Only 18.3% of residents live with a long-term health condition, which is well below both the state and national figures.
Health conditions
Long-term conditions people report.
A little over 70% of people here have no long-term health conditions. Those who do report them most often have mental health issues (5.8%), followed by arthritis, asthma, and cancer, all at 5.0%.
5.8%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people reporting a long-term mental health condition (incl. depression or anxiety).
Number of long-term health conditions
View on map →In Browns Creek, None is the majority at 79%; One condition is next at 15%.
Need for assistance
People needing help with daily activities.
Daily living is easy for almost everyone here, with 0.0% of residents needing help with daily activities. This is well below the 5.8% seen across New South Wales and Australia.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Browns Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10607/browns-creek/topic/health-disability