16.9%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people with one or more selected long-term health conditions.
Wangoom · Suburb / Locality
Health & Disability in Wangoom
Long-term health conditions and the need for help with everyday activities.
A far lower rate of long-term health issues than the state average defines Wangoom, where only 16.9% of people report a chronic condition. This is 11 percentage points lower than the figures for Victoria and Australia, marking it as one of the healthiest areas of its kind.
Health conditions
Long-term conditions people report.
Mental health conditions are much less common here than in most areas, affecting 5.1% of residents. The most frequent long-term health issue is asthma at 5.9%, while 71.7% of people report having no long-term health conditions at all.
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 Wangoom, None is the majority at 80%; One condition is next at 16%.
Need for assistance
People needing help with daily activities.
Very few people in Wangoom require help with daily activities, at just 1.7%. This is well below the national figure of 5.8%.
1.7% —
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 1.7%
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 Wangoom [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22683/wangoom/topic/health-disability