35.5%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people with one or more selected long-term health conditions.
Coopernook · Suburb / Locality
Health & Disability in Coopernook
Long-term health conditions and the need for help with everyday activities.
A striking 35.5% of people in Coopernook live with a long-term health condition. This is well above the national figure of 27.7%, marking the area as one where health challenges are much more common than in most other similar places.
Health conditions
Long-term conditions people report.
Mental health conditions affect 11.4% of residents, which is well above the New South Wales figure. Arthritis is the most common long-term health issue at 12.5%, followed by mental health and asthma.
11.4%
Higher than 79% 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 Coopernook, None is the majority at 60%; One condition is next at 24%.
Need for assistance
People needing help with daily activities.
Despite the high rate of health conditions, those needing help with daily activities make up 4.3% of the population. This is a little below the 5.8% recorded across both the state and the nation.
4.3% ▼ -36.1%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 4.3%
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 Coopernook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11047/coopernook/topic/health-disability