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

       Figure 41. Tenure type, Comparison areas, 2011




       Source: ABS 2013a;
       Notes: Excluding visitor only, and other non-classifiable households. Noosa Shire and Douglas Shire based
       on SA1s which do not fully align with the LGA boundary.

These differences will be considered when comparing the indicators for housing choice,
affordability and stress in the next sections. An indicator table showing the results of the
comparative analysis is provided in Appendix A.

4.2.1     Housing Choice
To simplify the analysis of housing choice, household types and dwelling sizes were grouped as
follows:

        Small households – households assumed to require a dwelling with 0-2 bedrooms. This is
         based not just on the number of people usually part of the household, but adjusted for
         different household types so that a small dwelling (0-2 bedrooms) would be suitable for
         them. For example, a couple with one child (3 people resident), and a single parent with
         one child (2 people resident), are both described here as small households;
        Large households – households assumed to require a dwelling with at least 3 bedrooms.
        Small dwellings - dwellings with 0-2 bedrooms;
        Large dwellings - 3+ bedrooms.


These definitions accord with those adopted in the State Interest Guideline - Housing supply and
diversity, April 2016.

Three related indicators were developed for housing choice:

        The proportion of small households living in small dwellings;
        The proportion of small households living in large dwellings;
        The proportion of large households living in large dwellings.

These proportions were obtained from the ABS Census in 2011 and charts showing the
comparisons are included below. Figure 42 below shows that around 72% of small households
were residing in large dwellings (with 3+ bedrooms) in 2011 in Noosa Shire. This was similar to
the proportion for Fraser Coast (72%), and Queensland (70%), but much higher than for Douglas
Shire (55%) and the Gold Coast (64%).




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