17.5%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people with one or more selected long-term health conditions.
Lah · Suburb / Locality
Health & Disability in Lah
Long-term health conditions and the need for help with everyday activities.
Over half of the people in Lah report having no long-term health conditions. This makes the area much healthier than most other regions, with very few residents requiring daily assistance or living with chronic illness.
Health conditions
Long-term conditions people report.
Only 17.5% of residents have a long-term health condition, which is far below the national figure of 27.7%. Mental health conditions are also much lower than most areas at 5.3%, with arthritis being the most common reported condition at 7%.
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 Lah, None is the majority at 69%; One condition is next at 24%.
Need for assistance
People needing help with daily activities.
No one in Lah reported needing help with daily activities. This is well below both the Victorian and Australian figures, which sit at around 5.9% and 5.8% respectively.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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 Lah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21425/lah/topic/health-disability