2015-03-03 Attachment 1 it Item 5 Planning & Organisation Agenda Community Profile Report

Noosa Coommunity Profile
Final Rep
        port A



7.        Socio
              o-Econ
                   nomic
                       cs
7.1       Socio-E
                Economic
                       c Index o
                               of Disadvantage
                                             e
           Analysiss of the Au
                              ustralian Bu
                                         ureau of Sttatistics Index of Relattive Socio-E  Economic
            Disadvantage (IRSDD) shows varrying degree
                                                     es of disadva
                                                                 antage betwe een localities. Please
            refer to Appendix A for a diaggrammatical representa ation of the IRSD break  kdown by
            SA1 region.

          Socio-Econnomic Index  xes for Areaas (SEIFA) is a productt developed by the ABS that
          ranks are eas in Aus   stralia accorrding to relative socio-economicc advantage     e and
          disadvantaage. The ind dexes are baased on information from m the five-y
                                                                                 yearly Census. The
          index usedd in the figuure below is the Index of Relative Socio-Econo
                                                                      S           omic Disadvaantage
          (IRSD). Thhis index us ses a range of Census variables
                                                          v         tha
                                                                      at measure disadvantag  ge (no
          advantagee indicators are
                                  a used) w  with a low in
                                                         ndex score inndicating mo ost disadvan
                                                                                              ntaged
          people andd households  s and a high
                                             h index score
                                                         e indicating least disadvaantaged. Ann index
          score of 1,,000 indicate
                                 es the Austraalian averag
                                                         ge. For exammple a low sccore could in
                                                                                              ndicate
          many hous  seholds withh low incomees, many peoople with no qualificationns or many people
                                                                                               p
          with low skkilled occupa
                                 ations.
          Variables considered in the Index x include: educational
                                                        e            attainment, occupationa  al skill
          level, households with h low incom
                                           mes, households with un   nemployed persons, low   w rent
          yields, hou
                    useholds witth persons wwith social assistance
                                                        a          neeeds, occup ied dwellings with
          demand fo or additional rooms (ove rcrowding), family disso
                                                                    olution indica
                                                                                 ators, and otthers.

           In 2011, those locallities conside
                                             ered to be most
                                                        m    disadvantaged were
                                                                              e:
                                               o       Nooosa North Shore (scorring 955.9 on the Index of Relattive Socio-e
                                                                                                                          economic
                                                       Dis
                                                         sadvantage)
                                               o       Borreen Point, Kin
                                                                      K Kin and C
                                                                                Cootharaba (959.3)
                                               o       Tew
                                                         wantin (965.8)
                                               o       Fed
                                                         deral to Ring
                                                                     gtail Creek (9
                                                                                  976.5).
           These fiindings are generally
                                g         in line with th
                                                        he lower leve
                                                                    els of schoolling as well as lower
            median personal and household   d income andd rents within these loca
                                                                                alities.
           Areas re
                   eporting low
                              wer levels o f relative disadvantage were Noossa Heads, Noosaville
                  onan and Sunshine Beacch to Peregia
            and Doo                                   an Beach.

          Figure 7.1:: Socio-Economic Index of Disadvantage, Localitties, 2011
                                               1,100
           Socio-Economic Disadvantage Index




                                               1,000
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                                                100
                                                   0




          Source: ABS (2011b)




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