36.5%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people with one or more selected long-term health conditions.
Cabbage Tree Creek · Suburb / Locality
Health & Disability in Cabbage Tree Creek
Long-term health conditions and the need for help with everyday activities.
More than a third of people in Cabbage Tree Creek live with a long-term health condition. This is well above the national figure of 27.7%, marking it as an area where health challenges are much more common than in most other parts of the country.
Health conditions
Long-term conditions people report.
About 36.5% of residents have a long-term health condition, which is well above the Victorian rate of 27.4%. While asthma and heart disease are both reported by 11.5% of people, those with mental health conditions (7.7%) are slightly less common than the national figure.
7.7%
Lower than 54% 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 Cabbage Tree Creek, None is the majority at 67%; One condition is next at 22%.
Need for assistance
People needing help with daily activities.
Need for daily help is very high here, with 19.2% of people requiring assistance. This is far above both the state and national figures, which sit around 6%.
19.2% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 19.2%
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 Cabbage Tree Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20439/cabbage-tree-creek/topic/health-disability