25.3%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people with one or more selected long-term health conditions.
Darkes Forest · Suburb / Locality
Health & Disability in Darkes Forest
Long-term health conditions and the need for help with everyday activities.
Much lower rates of disability and illness mark Darkes Forest compared to the rest of the country. Very few people here live with long-term health issues or need daily support, with 73.7% of the population reporting no long-term health conditions at all.
Health conditions
Long-term conditions people report.
Only 25.3% of residents have a long-term health condition, which is a little below the New South Wales figure of 27.0%. This includes asthma, the most common ailment at 9.5%, while mental health conditions are well below the national figure at 5.3%.
5.3%
Lower than 74% 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 Darkes Forest, None is the majority at 73%; One condition is next at 20%.
Need for assistance
People needing help with daily activities.
No one in the community reported needing help with daily activities. This 0.0% rate is well below the national and state figures of 5.8%.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.2%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 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 Darkes Forest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11210/darkes-forest/topic/health-disability