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

3.     EXISTING HOUSING SUPPLY AND DWELLING CHARACTERISTICS

3.1 Private Housing Market Characteristics
3.1.1      Total Dwellings
There were a total of 25,419 dwellings counted in Noosa Shire at the 2011 Census. Of these,
20,713 dwellings were occupied on Census night (75.2%), 4,559 were unoccupied (17.9%)5, and
147 were non-private dwellings (0.6%) (for example, residential aged care homes and hospitals)
(Table 3). The proportion of unoccupied dwellings in Noosa Shire was much higher than for
Queensland as a whole (17.9% for Noosa Shire, compared to 9.7% for Queensland).
Approximately 1,602 dwellings were occupied by visitors/tourists on Census night, and these
dwellings made up around 6.3% of all of the dwellings in Noosa Shire, or 7.7% of all occupied
private dwellings.

Table 3. Dwellings, Noosa Shire, SEQ and Queensland, 2011

Dwelling Type                                   Noosa Shire                  SEQ             Queensland

Occupied private dwellings                     20,713 (81.5%)          1,150,971 (91.2%)   1,648,541 (90.0%)

Occupied private dwellings – Residents         19,111 (75.2%)          1,096,686 (86.9%)   1,547,304 (84.5%)

Occupied private dwellings – Visitors           1,602 (6.3%)             54,285 (4.3%)       101,237 (5.5%)
only

Unoccupied private dwellings                   4,559 (17.9%)            108,085 (8.6%)       177,914 (9.7%)

Total                                         25,272 (99.4%)       1,259,056 (99.8%)       1,826,455 (99.7%)

Non-private dwellings                            147 (0.6%)              2,419 (0.2%)         5,412 (0.3%)

Total (including non-private                      25,419                  1,261,475            1,831,867
dwellings)                                       (100.0%)                 (100.0%)             (100.0%)

Notes: Excludes migratory, off-shore and shipping dwellings.
Source: ABS 2013a;

3.1.2      Dwelling Type
Of the 25,272 private dwellings in Noosa Shire in 2011, 18,828 were detached or separate houses
(74.5%), 2,489 were semi-detached (9.8%), 3,328 were attached (13.2%) and 618 were other
dwelling types (2.4%). Table 4 and Figure 10 below summarise the numbers and proportions of
the different dwelling types for both unoccupied and occupied dwellings as well as dwellings
occupied by residents and visitors/tourists.

Larger proportions of unoccupied dwellings and dwellings occupied only by visitors are attached
dwellings, compared to dwellings occupied by residents. Around 24% of unoccupied dwellings
and 28% of dwellings occupied only by visitors were attached dwellings, compared with just 9.4%
of dwellings occupied by residents being attached.




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    19.3% if excluding dwellings occupied by visitor only households




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