17.3%
Lower than 95% of urban centre areas.
Share of people with one or more selected long-term health conditions.
Hope Vale · Urban Centre
Health & Disability in Hope Vale
Long-term health conditions and the need for help with everyday activities.
Far fewer people report long-term health issues in Hope Vale than in other similar areas. Only 17.3% of residents have a long-term health condition, which is well below the national figure of 27.7%. This pattern extends to mental health, which is reported by very few residents.
Health conditions
Long-term conditions people report.
Mental health conditions affect just 1.6% of people here, a figure well below the 8.8% national average. Among those with long-term health issues, diabetes is the most common at 9.8%, while 71.6% of all residents report having no long-term conditions at all.
1.6%
Lower than 99% 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 Hope Vale, None is the majority at 80%; One condition is next at 14%.
Need for assistance
People needing help with daily activities.
Needing help with daily activities is much less common here than in most areas, affecting 3.0% of people. This is a little below the Queensland figure of 6.0% and has fallen by 2.0 percentage points since 2011.
3.0% ▼ -40.2%
Lower than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.0%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 3.0%
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).
More for Hope Vale
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Health & Disability in Hope Vale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321052/hope-vale/topic/health-disability