23.8%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people with one or more selected long-term health conditions.
Merrinee · Suburb / Locality
Health & Disability in Merrinee
Long-term health conditions and the need for help with everyday activities.
Roughly 76% of people in Merrinee have no long-term health conditions. This makes the area far healthier than most, with a much lower rate of chronic illness and disability compared to both Victoria and the rest of Australia.
Health conditions
Long-term conditions people report.
Only 23.8% of residents have a long-term health condition, which is well below the national figure of 27.7%. Mental health conditions are also less common here at 7.1%, slightly lower than the 8.8% seen across Australia.
7.1%
Lower than 60% 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 Merrinee, None is the majority at 86%; One condition is next at 14%.
Need for assistance
People needing help with daily activities.
No one in Merrinee reported needing help with daily activities. This 0.0% rate is well below the 5.8% national average and the 5.9% figure for Victoria.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.3%
- 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 Merrinee [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21669/merrinee/topic/health-disability