27.5%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people with one or more selected long-term health conditions.
Upper Plenty · Suburb / Locality
Health & Disability in Upper Plenty
Long-term health conditions and the need for help with everyday activities.
Far fewer people report mental health issues and a need for daily help in Upper Plenty than in most similar areas. While about 27.5% of residents live with a long-term health condition, this is about the same as the figures for Victoria and Australia.
Health conditions
Long-term conditions people report.
Mental health conditions are reported by only 5.1% of residents, which is well below the 8.8% seen across Australia and Victoria. The most common long-term health issues here are asthma at 7.5%, followed by arthritis and diabetes at 7% each.
5.1%
Lower than 75% 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 Upper Plenty, None is the majority at 68%; One condition is next at 23%.
Need for assistance
People needing help with daily activities.
Needing help with daily activities is much less common here than in most areas. Only 2.2% of people require such support, a figure well below the 5.8% national average.
2.2% ▼ -53.2%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 2.2%
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 Upper Plenty [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22617/upper-plenty/topic/health-disability