24.1%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people with one or more selected long-term health conditions.
Watsons Creek · Suburb / Locality
Health & Disability in Watsons Creek
Long-term health conditions and the need for help with everyday activities.
About 84.5% of people in Watsons Creek report having no long-term health conditions. This is a healthy community where residents are far less likely to live with chronic illness or mental health issues than the national average.
Health conditions
Long-term conditions people report.
Only 24.1% of residents have a long-term health condition, which is well below the Victorian figure of 27.4%. This includes a very low rate of mental health conditions at 5.2%, much lower than the 8.8% seen across Australia.
5.2%
Lower than 74% 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 Watsons Creek, None is the majority at 75%; One condition is next at 20%.
Need for assistance
People needing help with daily activities.
No one in Watsons Creek reported needing help with daily activities. This is well below the national and state figures, which both sit around 5.8% to 5.9%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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 Watsons Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22723/watsons-creek/topic/health-disability