3.9%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people with one or more selected long-term health conditions.
Cradle Mountain · Suburb / Locality
Long-term health conditions and the need for help with everyday activities.
Very few residents in Cradle Mountain report living with a long-term health condition. This sparsely populated area sees only 3.9% of people dealing with chronic health issues, a figure that is far below both the Tasmanian and national averages.
Long-term conditions people report.
Mental health conditions are also much lower than in most areas at 3.3%. Only 3.9% of residents have diabetes and 2.6% have asthma, while 63.2% of the population reports having no long-term health conditions at all.
3.9%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people with one or more selected long-term health conditions.
3.3%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people reporting a long-term mental health condition (incl. depression or anxiety).
In Cradle Mountain, None is the majority at 95%; One condition is next at 5%.
People needing help with daily activities.
Daily life here requires very little support, with 0.0% of people needing help with daily activities. This is well below the 6.8% seen across Tasmania and the 5.8% national figure.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people with a core-activity need for assistance due to disability or age.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Health & Disability in Cradle Mountain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60133/cradle-mountain/topic/health-disability