30.6%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people with one or more selected long-term health conditions.
Laffing Waters · Suburb / Locality
Health & Disability in Laffing Waters
Long-term health conditions and the need for help with everyday activities.
Not a single person in Laffing Waters reports needing help with daily activities, marking a huge gap compared to the rest of the country. While overall long-term health is slightly worse than the state average, the area sees very few people struggling with mental health.
Health conditions
Long-term conditions people report.
About 30.6% of people here have a long-term health condition, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 27.0%. However, mental health conditions are much lower than most areas, at just 4.1% compared to the national figure of 8.8%.
4.1%
Lower 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 Laffing Waters, None is the majority at 69%; One condition is next at 26%.
Need for assistance
People needing help with daily activities.
No one in the area reports needing assistance with daily tasks. This is well below the 5.8% recorded for both New South Wales and Australia.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.7%
- 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 Laffing Waters [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12242/laffing-waters/topic/health-disability