2021-12-13 GC Agenda - Item 8 -Attachment 1 - Housing Needs Assessment

Table 10 Lower income family indicators

      Area             Family tax benefit A                Low income families                  Families with
                        June quarter 2021                   (less than $650 per               children under 15
                                                             week or less than               years with no parent
                                                             $33,800 per year)                    employed
                                                                Census 2016                     Census 2016
                    Recipients    Rate per 100       Number       Percentage of all    Number      Percentage of
                                  families with                   families                         families with
                                  children under                                                   children under
                                  15 years, as                                                     15 years
                                  at 30 June
                                  2019
 Noosa                   1,434                64.1         682                  10.9        259                  12.3
 Hinterland
 Tewantin                  641                69.6         330                  11.5        125                  13.9
 Noosaville                383                56.0         261                  10.9          78                 12.0
 Noosa Heads               164                47.1         123                   9.8          30                  9.4
 Sunshine                  330                47.3         153                   8.5          56                  8.6
 Beach
 Peregian                  163                41.1           88                  8.3          45                 11.8
 Beach-Marcus
 Beach
 Queensland                                   62.7                               9.4                             13.8
Source: Queensland Treasury, Regional Profile derived from Department of Social Services, Payment Demographic Data.

Estimates of unemployment and labour force are produced by the Commonwealth Department of
Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business. Within Noosa Shire there are quite different figures,
however all SA2s indicate lower levels of unemployment in the March 2021 quarter than in the
previous December 2020 quarter. Labour force participation is also of interest because while for
instance Noosa Heads has a low unemployment rate it apparently has just 2,314 residents in the
labour force. Peregian Beach – Marcus Beach has just 2,105 residents in the labour force. Noosa
Hinterland by comparison has 11,611 residents in the labour force at March quarter 2021.




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