AUSTRALIA BEST AND WORST SUBURBS FOR LIVING IN THE COUNTRY Melbourne is Australia’s most liveable city, while Sydney is Australia’s best paid. Queensland is Australia’s jobs state, Western Australia is the education state and South Australia is the nation’s ‘Good Samaritan’ state with the highest volunteering rates in the country. The findings, based on the new BankWest Quality of Life Index, shows 21 of Australia’s 25 most liveable communities are in our urban suburbs, rather than coastal towns, dispelling the ‘sea-change’ and ‘tree-change’ dream. “Although many Australians dream of living on the coast or in the country, in reality the best quality of life in Australia is found in the suburbs, particularly in Sydney’s north, Melbourne’s east and western Perth,” BankWest Retail Chief Executive Ian Corfield says. “In the suburbs of Australia’s capital cities, residents often have the best of all worlds with access to good schools, modern hospitals and reliable jobs but also large houses, fast internet connections and low crime rates.” Five hundred and ninety local government areas (LGAs) across Australia were ranked against 10 key criteria including employment levels, crime rates, internet access, health, education levels, earnings, home ownership rates, house size, proportion of empty homes and community involvement. Residents of Ku-ring-gai in Sydney’s northern suburbs have the best quality of life in Australia, followed by those in Hunter’s Hill in Sydney and Nillumbik in Melbourne. Unfortunately for the good folk of Halls Creek in Western Australia, they’ve been ranked as having the lowest quality of life in Australia according to the survey. Which suburbs are our star performers? Home ownership rates are highest in Golden Plains (92%) in Victoria. Health rates are highest for Snowy Mountains residents in NSW with 88% in good health. Property-related crime rates are lowest in Golden Plains in Victoria with only 1.3% of the local population impacted in 2006/07. Volunteering rates are highest in Kimba (54%) in South Australia. High school enrolment rates are highest in Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland. The best jobs market is in Barcoo in Queensland where 100% of the local labour force is employed. Broadband internet connection rates are highest in Ku-ring-gai in Sydney (69%). The lowest proportion of vacant homes in the country is in Brighton (3.5%) in Tasmania. This is recognised as an important disincentive against crime. The greatest proportion of detached houses is in Broomehill (100%) and Tammin (100%) in Western Australia. The highest average taxable income is in Mosman ($126,884) in Sydney.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 03:13:04 +0000
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