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

Table 19 Occupied private dwellings by dwelling structure Noosa LGA 2006-2016


 Dwelling structure                                   Census Year                              Total Change

                                       2006                2011                   2016           2006-2016

                                 number        %      number       %      number         %     number      %

 Separate House                   14,913      69.7     15,910 76.7         16,887 76.4          1,974     13.2

 Semi-detached (includes            2,128       9.9      1,989     9.6          2,671 12.1        543     25.5
 duplexes)

 Apartment (includes                3,776     17.7       2,244 10.8             1,796    8.1    -1,980    -52.4
 flats, units, villas)

 Other (includes                      567       2.7        580     2.8           572     2.6        5       0.9
 Caravan, cabin,
 houseboat; shop-top flat)

 Total occupied private           21,391       100     20,738      100     22,110        100      719       3.4
 dwelling (included where
 type not stated)

Source: ABS 2016 Census of Population and Housing Time Series Profile Noosa (S) LGA, based
on place of enumeration, and includes visitor only households.
Table 20 below examines the structure of occupied private dwellings against the number of persons
usually resident, and how this has changed over the 2006 – 2016 inter-census decade. It suggests
there are significantly smaller numbers of households living in one or two storey unit blocks.
Council should possibly be concerned if there is a decline in attached housing being occupied by
permanent residents and an increase in units becoming holiday or short term let apartments,
especially if its growth strategy is focused on additional units. While dwelling targets may be met it
may be of limited benefit to housing residents if they are used for short term accommodation or
locked up as holiday units.
There is a specific reference to apartments attached to a house. 14 households were recorded living
in these in 2006 yet only three in 2016. This is particularly interesting as certainly the number of
secondary dwellings or relative apartments built during that period was not insignificant.




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