15.6%
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people with one or more selected long-term health conditions.
Erub Island · Suburb / Locality
Health & Disability in Erub Island
Long-term health conditions and the need for help with everyday activities.
Daily life on Erub Island is marked by a very low rate of reported illness, with only 15.6% of people living with a long-term health condition. This figure is far below the national average of 27.7%, suggesting a population that reports fewer chronic health struggles than most Australians.
Health conditions
Long-term conditions people report.
Reporting of long-term health issues is much lower than in Queensland, and notably, no one in the community reported a mental health condition. For those who do have a chronic illness, diabetes (4.9%) and heart disease (4.3%) are the most common, while 76.4% of residents have no long-term condition at all.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Erub Island, None is the majority at 83%; One condition is next at 15%.
Need for assistance
People needing help with daily activities.
About 4.3% of people need some help with their daily activities. This is a little below the figures for both Queensland (6.0%) and Australia (5.8%), and is around the middle for similar areas.
4.3% ▲ +34.6%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 4.3%
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 Erub Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30983/erub-island/topic/health-disability