2017-04-11 P&E Agenda Attachment 1 to Item 1 Housing Needs Assessment

Table 37. Accommodation establishments16, Members of Tourism Noosa, Noosa Shire,
August 2016

Area                                           Accommodation
                                                Establishments

Noosa Heads                                            52

Noosaville                                             42

Peregian                                               6

Sunshine Beach                                         12

Noosa Shire (approximate)                             112

Source: Tourism Noosa, 2016;


Holiday Homes/Commercial Rental Dwellings
Holiday homes and dwellings are those temporarily rented through the commercial rental market
by visitors to the Shire. For clarity, these are termed visitor dwellings throughout this report, as
distinct from the types of tourist accommodation above, or accommodation through AirBnB etc,
considered below.

There were a total of 1,602 households counted on census night in 2011 that were identified as
only including visitors to the Shire (ABS 2013a). In addition, around 4,559 dwellings were
unoccupied. A proportion of these unoccupied dwellings may be usually occupied by visitors and
a proportion by residents, and therefore this data is inconclusive as to the extent of visitor
dwellings in the Shire. However, by comparing the total number of dwellings counted in the
census (including dwellings occupied by residents and visitors, and unoccupied dwellings), and
comparing this count to an estimate of resident households provided by the Queensland
Treasury (based on estimate resident population) (Queensland Government 2016h) an estimate of
the number of unoccupied visitor dwellings in the region can be made. This equates to another
2,520 dwellings used by visitors but unoccupied on Census night. The analysis therefore suggests
that around 4,120 dwellings in the Shire could be classified as visitor dwellings in 2011.

More recent modelling undertaken by Unitywater using their Demand Modeller and Tracking
Tool (DMaTT) (Unitywater 2016) for Noosa Shire suggested that there were 4,781 visitor dwellings
in the region in 2014, including 4,777 attached dwellings and 4 detached dwellings. It is
understood that the DMaTT methodology likely overcounts attached visitor dwellings, and
undercounts detached visitor dwellings (discussed in Section 6.3.4). Using data from the Census it
was estimated that there were some 2,017 detached visitor dwellings in 2011 (700 detached
dwellings occupied by visitors on Census night, and 1,317 detached dwellings unoccupied on
Census night but assumed to be normally occupied by visitors17).



16
     Obvious non-accommodation providers were omitted from the list of members provided.
17
     This has been calculated in three steps: (1) estimating the breakdown between total unoccupied resident
and unoccupied visitor dwellings based on the difference in dwelling counts in the census, and household
estimates from Queensland Treasury data, (2) assuming that unoccupied resident dwellings have a similar
dwelling mix breakdown to occupied resident dwellings, and (3) calculating the difference between the mix
of unoccupied dwellings and the assumed mix of unoccupied resident dwellings.



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