19.5%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people with one or more selected long-term health conditions.
Guildford · Suburb / Locality
Health & Disability in Guildford
Long-term health conditions and the need for help with everyday activities.
Roughly 68.5% of people in Guildford report having no long-term health conditions. This makes the suburb much healthier than most similar areas, with far fewer residents living with chronic illness or mental health issues than the national average.
Health conditions
Long-term conditions people report.
Only 19.5% of residents have a long-term health condition, which is well below the Australian figure of 27.7%. Mental health conditions are also much less common here, affecting 4.8% of people compared to 8.8% across the country.
4.8%
Lower than 76% 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 Guildford, None is the majority at 78%; One condition is next at 15%.
Need for assistance
People needing help with daily activities.
Despite the lower rate of chronic illness, 7.5% of people need help with daily activities. This is a little above the 5.8% recorded for both New South Wales and Australia, and is much higher than in most similar areas.
7.5% ▲ +15.5%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.5%
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 7.5%
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 Guildford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11796/guildford/topic/health-disability