29.0%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people with one or more selected long-term health conditions.
Bracken Ridge · Suburb / Locality
Health & Disability in Bracken Ridge
Long-term health conditions and the need for help with everyday activities.
About the same as most similar areas, Bracken Ridge shows health patterns that closely mirror the rest of the state. While 29% of residents live with a long-term health condition, a higher than average 9.4% of people here report a mental health condition.
Health conditions
Long-term conditions people report.
Mental health is the most common long-term condition at 9.4%, followed by other conditions (9%) and asthma (8.8%). Most residents have no long-term health issues, with 65.4% reporting none.
9.4%
Higher than 62% 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 Bracken Ridge, None is the majority at 69%; One condition is next at 21%.
Need for assistance
People needing help with daily activities.
Around 5.1% of people in Bracken Ridge need help with daily activities, which is about the same as the figures for Queensland and Australia.
5.1% ▲ +63.9%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 5.1%
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 Bracken Ridge [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30353/bracken-ridge/topic/health-disability