27.5%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people with one or more selected long-term health conditions.
Buffalo · Suburb / Locality
Health & Disability in Buffalo
Long-term health conditions and the need for help with everyday activities.
Fewer people need help with daily activities in Buffalo than in most other areas. While 27.5% of residents live with a long-term health condition, this is about the same as the figures for Victoria and Australia.
Health conditions
Long-term conditions people report.
Mental health is the most common long-term condition here at 7.4%, followed by arthritis and asthma both at 6.3%. This mental health rate is a little below the 8.8% recorded across the state and nation.
7.4%
Lower than 57% 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 Buffalo, None is the majority at 69%; One condition is next at 25%.
Need for assistance
People needing help with daily activities.
Only 3.5% of people in Buffalo need help with daily activities, which is lower than most areas and a little below the Victorian figure of 5.9%.
3.5% ▲ +74.6%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 3.5%
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 Buffalo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20375/buffalo/topic/health-disability