14.7%
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people with one or more selected long-term health conditions.
Slaty Creek · Suburb / Locality
Health & Disability in Slaty Creek
Long-term health conditions and the need for help with everyday activities.
Far fewer people in Slaty Creek live with a long-term health condition compared to most of the country. Only 14.7% of residents report a chronic illness, which is a far lower figure than the national average of 27.7%. However, mental health challenges are notably more common here.
Health conditions
Long-term conditions people report.
Mental health conditions are reported by 20.6% of residents, a figure far above the 8.8% seen across Australia and Victoria. In contrast, only 14.7% of the population has any long-term health condition, and 64.7% of people report having none at all.
20.6%
Higher than 99% 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 Slaty Creek, None is the majority at 67%; One condition is next at 21%.
Need for assistance
People needing help with daily activities.
No one in this sparsely populated area reports needing help with daily activities. This is well below the 5.8% national figure.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.1%
- 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 Slaty Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22292/slaty-creek/topic/health-disability