2018-08-07 Planning & Environment Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                          7 AUGUST 2018


The percentage of persons aged 65 years and over receiving the age pension for Noosa Shire
was 60.7%, being lower than the State’s figure of 66.4%. However the figure was as high as
86.1% for Peregian Beach – Marcus Beach, then 71.8% for Tewantin. It was lowest in Noosa
Heads at just 38.5%.
In the December quarter 2017, 3.8% of Noosa Shire’s population over 16 years of age were
receiving disability support pension which was lower than the Queensland rate of 4.1%.
However the figure was as high as 4.8% in Tewantin and 4.5% in Noosa Hinterland. It was
lowest in Sunshine Beach at 2.4%.
For Noosa Shire 3.1% of persons aged 16 years and over were receiving carer allowance in
December quarter 2017. This is comparable with the State figure of 3.2%. Across the Shire the
highest figure was Tewantin at 3.8% followed closely by Noosa Hinterland at 3.7%. The lowest
figure was 1.6% at Noosa Heads.
The unemployment rate for Noosa Shire at March quarter 2018 was 4.5%. At the same time it
was 6.0% for the State. Within the Shire it was highest as Tewantin at 5.8% followed by Noosa
Hinterland at 5.0%. The lowest rate was 3.3% in Noosa Heads.
For Noosa Shire 6.3% of persons aged 22 to 64 were receiving the Newstart Allowance at the
December quarter 2017. This is comparable with the State figure of 6.2%. Within the Shire the
highest proportion was 7.4% in Tewantin and lowest was 5.0% in Sunshine Beach.
According to the 2016 census 12.2% of Noosa Shire’s families with children under 15 had no
parent employed. While this was better than the figure of 13.8% for the State there was
substantial variation across the Shire as can be seen in Table 8.
            Table 8 Percentage of total families with children under 15 with no parent employed

        Noosa          Tewantin         Noosaville      Noosa Heads            Sunshine         Peregian
    Hinterland                                                                   Beach      Beach-Marcus
                                                                                                   Beach
        12.3%             13.9%              12.0%               6.5%               8.6%           11.8%


Across Noosa Shire, 21.03% of residents undertook voluntary work. This compares favourably
with the 18.8% for the whole State. Volunteering rates were as high as 26.18% for 65 to 74 year
olds and over 23% for ages 35 to 54. In terms of SA2s, 23.4% of residents of Peregian Beach –
Marcus Beach undertook voluntary work with Noosa Hinterland second highest at 22.5%. At
18.8% the lowest rate at Tewantin was still on par with the State figure.
Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) is a summary measure of the social and economic
conditions comprising a number of indexes. It is generated by ABS from the 2016 Census and
ranks geographical areas in terms of their relative socio-economic disadvantage using five
quintiles. As a benchmark the State figure will by default have 20% of the population in each of
the five quintiles. Figure 11 graphically provides a breakdown of the population into the quintiles
for the State, Noosa Shire as a whole and for the six SA2s in Noosa.




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