30.5%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people with one or more selected long-term health conditions.
Brighton · Suburb / Locality
Health & Disability in Brighton
Long-term health conditions and the need for help with everyday activities.
About 63.6% of residents in Brighton report having no long-term health conditions. This is a relatively healthy area, though a little more than 10% of people live with a mental health condition, which is higher than most other areas.
Health conditions
Long-term conditions people report.
Long-term health conditions affect 30.5% of the population, a figure a little above the national average. Mental health is the most common condition at 10.3%, followed by asthma at 9.4% and arthritis at 8.9%.
10.3%
Higher than 71% 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 Brighton, None is the majority at 68%; One condition is next at 22%.
Need for assistance
People needing help with daily activities.
Around 5.1% of people in Brighton need some help with their daily activities, which is about the same as the figures for Queensland and Australia.
5.1% ▼ -12.9%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 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 Brighton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30373/brighton/topic/health-disability