25.4%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people with one or more selected long-term health conditions.
Quantong · Suburb / Locality
Health & Disability in Quantong
Long-term health conditions and the need for help with everyday activities.
Fewer people live with long-term health issues in Quantong than in most other similar areas. Only 25.4% of residents report a long-term condition, which is a little below the national figure of 27.7%.
Health conditions
Long-term conditions people report.
Arthritis and asthma are the most common long-term health issues here, both affecting 9.3% of people. Around 68.9% of residents have no long-term health conditions, while 7.6% have a mental health condition, a figure slightly below the Victorian average.
7.6%
Lower than 55% 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 Quantong, None is the majority at 75%; One condition is next at 20%.
Need for assistance
People needing help with daily activities.
The proportion of people who need help with daily activities is 4.5%, which is around the middle for similar areas and a little below the Australian figure of 5.8%.
4.5% ▲ +38.8%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 4.5%
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 Quantong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22133/quantong/topic/health-disability