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

Table 25 Occupied private dwellings being rented 2016


 Area                                               Number of occupied            Percentage of
                                                   private dwellings being      occupied private
                                                            rented            dwellings being rented

 Noosa Hinterland                                                     1,289                   16.5%

 Tewantin                                                             1,085                   26.8%

 Noosaville                                                           1,071                   29.0%

 Noosa Heads                                                            516                   29.3%

 Sunshine Beach                                                         804                   31.9%

 Peregian Beach – Marcus Beach                                          455                   30.9%

 Noosa Shire                                                          5,087                   25.3%

 Queensland                                                         566,478                   34.2%

Source: ABS, Census of Population and Housing, 2016, General Community Profile - G33


In 2016 there were 324 occupied private dwellings with some other form of tenure such as dwellings
being occupied under a life tenure scheme. This represented 1.6%.
Noosa Council keeps records of whether a rateable property is declared to be the owners’ principal
place of residence or not. Around the time of the 2016 census 16,820 of the 30,153 rateable
residential properties (or 55.78%) were claimed to be a principal place of residence. At July 2021
there were 18,146 properties out of 30,915 (or 58.07%) categorised as principal place of residence.
Noosa is a favoured place for second homes or holiday homes. Some of these are available at least
part of the time for short-term paying guests, and some are just preserved for use by the owners,
their family and friends. They are not typically available for permanent rental accommodation.
During consultation on the new planning scheme many property owners relayed to Council the
reasons they chose not to make their properties available for permanent tenants. These were both
financial and lifestyle reasons. Most of them wanted the flexibility to come stay in the property when
they could but to leverage an income from it at other times.




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