19.5%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people with one or more selected long-term health conditions.
Stretton · Suburb / Locality
Health & Disability in Stretton
Long-term health conditions and the need for help with everyday activities.
Far fewer people live with long-term health issues in Stretton than in most similar areas. Only 19.5% of residents report a chronic condition, which is well below both the Queensland and national figures. This makes the area stand out as being significantly healthier than most other parts of the country.
Health conditions
Long-term conditions people report.
Mental health conditions are much less common here than in other areas, affecting only 3.9% of people. Most residents have no long-term health problems at all, while the most frequent conditions reported are diabetes and asthma.
3.9%
Lower than 80% 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 Stretton, None is the majority at 80%; One condition is next at 15%.
Need for assistance
People needing help with daily activities.
About 4.4% of people in Stretton need help with their daily activities. This is a little below the national figure of 5.8% and is around the middle for similar areas.
4.4% ▲ +88.0%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 4.4%
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 Stretton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32681/stretton/topic/health-disability