25.4%
Lower than 82% of urban centre areas.
Share of people with one or more selected long-term health conditions.
Cooya Beach · Urban Centre
Health & Disability in Cooya Beach
Long-term health conditions and the need for help with everyday activities.
About 64% of people in Cooya Beach report having no long-term health conditions. This makes the area much healthier than most similar places, with a smaller proportion of residents living with chronic illness or mental health struggles.
Health conditions
Long-term conditions people report.
Only 25.4% of residents have a long-term health condition, which is well below the Queensland figure of 28.8%. Mental health conditions are also much less common here than in most other areas, affecting 7.5% of the population.
7.5%
Lower than 76% of urban centre 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 Cooya Beach, None is the majority at 72%; One condition is next at 20%.
Need for assistance
People needing help with daily activities.
Fewer people in Cooya Beach need help with daily activities compared to the rest of the country. Only 4.1% of residents require this support, a figure that has fallen since 2011.
4.1% ▼ -18.7%
Lower than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 4.1%
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 Cooya Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321033/cooya-beach/topic/health-disability