26.7%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people with one or more selected long-term health conditions.
Prairie · Suburb / Locality
Health & Disability in Prairie
Long-term health conditions and the need for help with everyday activities.
A mental health rate of just 5.2% is well below the national figure for Prairie. This is a healthy community where far fewer people report long-term health issues compared to most other similar areas.
Health conditions
Long-term conditions people report.
Only 26.7% of people have a long-term health condition, which is a little below the Queensland figure. Mental health conditions are especially rare here, at 5.2%, while the most common reported issues are other conditions and asthma.
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 Prairie, None is the majority at 70%; One condition is next at 23%.
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 and Australia.
4.3% ▲ +39.8%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 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 Prairie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32358/prairie/topic/health-disability