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Living in Place in Ipswich in 2024

This section presents the Overall Liveability Index and shows what the community believes makes somewhere a good place to live and how they experience their local area in that regard. It highlights the liveability attributes where residents local area experiences need to be maintained or improved to advance quality of life in their local area and gives you the ability to explore how the views compare to benchmarks, change across local areas and the influence of demography.

Ipswich Overall Liveability Index
Ipswich 2023
53.0
Australia: 2024
63.4
Metropolitan Australia: 2024
64.5
Queensland: 2024
62.2
South East Queensland: 2024
63.8
Collected July 2024

Ipswich’s overall liveability – created by combining residents’ values and local area experiences – returned a Overall Liveability Index of 54.8 out of 100. By this measure, liveability in Ipswich is considered lower than Australia: 2024 (63.4), Metropolitan Australia: 2024 (64.5), Queensland: 2024 (62.2), and South East Queensland: 2024 (63.8).

Living in Ipswich - values & experiences matrix

Use the values and experiences matrix to understand the relationship between what your residents believe makes somewhere a good place to live and how they experience their local area in that regard. The matrix highlights the attributes that your community believe needs to maintained and improved to advance overall liveability.

Greater Importance & Worse Experiences    Greater Importance & Better Experiences    Less important attributes
- - - Change from previous wave

Living in Ipswich – interactive explorer

Use the interactive explorer to understand how your community’s values and experiences compare to other similar locations and regional benchmarks. The explorer also allows you to understand values and experiences across small areas within your LGA and the role of demography. View this short video to learn more about this tool.

Ipswich Overall Liveability Index

Ipswich Overall Liveability Index 54.8

May 2023 Overall Liveability Index

May 2023 Overall Liveability Index 53.0

Ipswich
May 2023
Results sorted by experience in Ipswich
Importance
Experience
49%
6.3
45%
6.0
Importance
Experience
21%
6.1
19%
5.9
Importance
Experience
12%
6.1
10%
6.0
Importance
Experience
20%
6.0
22%
5.9
Importance
Experience
44%
5.8
42%
5.4
Importance
Experience
29%
5.8
30%
5.7
Importance
Experience
12%
5.8
14%
5.7
Importance
Experience
34%
5.6
39%
5.4
Importance
Experience
41%
5.4
39%
5.2
Importance
Experience
71%
5.3
71%
5.1
Importance
Experience
48%
5.3
50%
5.3
Importance
Experience
34%
5.2
36%
4.8
Importance
Experience
12%
5.2
12%
5.0
Importance
Experience
19%
4.8
20%
4.8
Importance
Experience
17%
4.7
15%
4.4
Importance
Experience
37%
4.5
37%
4.5

When asked to select the five attributes that they believe make somewhere a good place to live, residents of Ipswich were most likely to select [imp ATTRIBUTE 1 & (%)], [imp ATTRIBUTE 2 & (%)] and [imp ATTRIBUTE 3 & (%)]. When asked to rate their local area experiences against all 16 attributes, Ipswich residents’ most positive experiences included [exp ATTRIBUTE 1 & (mean)], [exp ATTRIBUTE 2 & (mean)] and [imp ATTRIBUTE 3 & (mean)].

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