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

Noosa Coommunity Profile
Final Rep
        port A


          Figure KPS
                   S.6: Employm
                              ment by Indu
                                         ustry, Noosa
                                                    a Shire LGA, 2006 and 20
                                                                           011

                                               R
                                               Retail trade
                       Acco
                          ommodation and fo
                                          ood services
                        He
                         ealth care and sociall assistance
                                              C
                                              Construction
                                   Education and
                                             a training
            Professional, scientific
                          s          and techniccal services
                                            Manufacturing
                     Administrative and suppo
                                            ort services
                         Public administration and safety
                                              her services
                                            Oth
                      Tran
                         nsport, postal and warehousing
                                            w
                                          Whollesale trade
                   Rental, hiring and real esta
                                              ate services
                         Fiinancial and insuran
                                              nce services
                         A
                         Agriculture, forestry and fishing
                                                    Mining
                              Arts and recreation services
                                                                                       Noosa Sh
                                                                                              hire LGA - 2006
             Information media
                         m     and telecomm
                                          munications
                                                                                       Noosa Sh
                                                                                              hire LGA - 2011
               Electricity, gas, water and wasste services

                                                           0.0%     5.0%       10.0%         15
                                                                                              5.0%         20.0%
                                                                                                               %
                                                                  Employment by
                                                                             b Industry (%)

          Source: ABS (2006 and 2011a)

           Noosa’s s housing stock is consistent with its demograph               hic and ec
                                                                                            conomic
            structuure. Housing  g density ( persons perr household   d), level of unoccupied
                                                                                            d private
            dwelling
                   gs and leve  el of homess owned ou     utright (i.e. without a mortgage) are all
            consiste
                   ent with a population with high levels of older    o      reside
                                                                                  ents and a tourism
            destinattion (with a high
                                 h    level off holiday hom
                                                          mes).
               o      Noo
                        osa reported
                                   d a lower aaverage pers           ousehold (2. 4) compared to the
                                                           sons per ho
                      SEQ
                        Q Region (2.6) and the S
                                               State (2.6).
               o      Nooosa reporteed a considderably high           entation of unoccupied private
                                                            her represe
                      dwellings (19.3
                                    3% of all dw
                                               wellings) in comparison to the SEQQ Region (9.2%) and
                        e State (10.3
                      the           3%).
               o      Noo
                        osa reported a conside
                                             erably higheer proportio
                                                                    on of dwelli ngs owned outright
                      (37
                        7.0%) when compared t o the SEQ Region
                                                        R      (29.0%) and the State (29.7%
                                                                                          %).
           Noosa’ss househo old structu re is relattively cons   sistent witth SEQ an  nd QLD.
            Roughly
                  y 70% of hoouseholds arre one family household  ds across No
                                                                             oosa, SEQ and
                                                                                        a   QLD.
            Noosa reported
                  r        a slightly
                             s        higheer proportion of lone pe
                                                                  erson houseeholds (25.2
                                                                                        2%) than
            the SEQ
                  Q Region (22.4%) and th he State (22.8%).
           Houses s in Noosa are
                                a    more e expensive than in othe    er parts of the State. In 2014,
            the meddian house price
                                p      in Noo
                                            osa was $48  81,410, while e in the Staate it was $4405,000.
            Since 20001, the meedian house price in Noo   osa has alwa ays been hig gher than thhe State,
            however, the differrence in the median house price be      etween Noo  osa and the State in
            2014 ($76,410) was  s at its lowe st in 12 years. Median house
                                                                      h      pricess in Noosa haave risen
            by an esstimated annnual average e of 7.0% be etween 2001 1 and 2014. This is slightly lower
            than thee State where the mediian house price was esttimated to h      have grown by 8.2%
            annually
                   y on average over the same period. The hous        sing price d ifferential is
                                                                                                s likely a
            function
                   n of the high levels of am
                                            menity in Noo osa (for tourrism and life
                                                                                   estyle).
           Rent in
                  n Noosa is higher
                              h      than
                                        n in SEQ annd QLD, while mortgag  ge repayme  ents are
            lower. The mediann monthly re
                                        ent in Noosa
                                                   a is $1,443 compared too SEQ ($1,2283) and
            QLD ($1
                  1,300). The median monnthly mortga
                                                   age repaymeent in Noosa is $1,770 compared
            to SEQ ($1,794)
                   (        and
                              d QLD ($1,8
                                        850).
           The aveerage value
                             e of residen
                                        ntial approvals in Noo  osa are 30%% higher thhan SEQ
            and QLLD. Noosa’s average val ue per resid
                                                     dential appro
                                                                 oval was $37
                                                                            71,518 com
                                                                                     mpared to
            $280,45
                  58 in SEQ an
                             nd $283,065 in QLD.
           Noosa has higher  r levels of p
                                          participatioon in prima ary and sec condary ed ducation
            than SEEQ and QLD D. The mostt common in  nstitution being attended
                                                                              d for those currently
                                                                                          c
            studying
                   g in Noosa was
                              w infants/ primary (42  2.3%), higheer than the S
                                                                              SEQ Region (37.2%)
            and State (39.1%). This was al so the case for secondary with 30.44% of local residents
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