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Living in Place in Sunshine Coast 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.

Sunshine Coast Overall Liveability Index
Sunshine Coast 2023
60.9
Australia: 2024
63.4
Queensland: 2024
62.2
South East Queensland: 2024
63.8
Reg/Rural Aus: 2024
61.5
Collected May 2024

Sunshine Coast’s overall liveability – created by combining residents’ values and local area experiences – returned a Overall Liveability Index of 60.3 out of 100. By this measure, liveability in Sunshine Coast is considered lower than Australia: 2024 (63.4), Queensland: 2024 (62.2), South East Queensland: 2024 (63.8), and Reg/Rural Aus: 2024 (61.5).

Living in Sunshine Coast - 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 Sunshine Coast – 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.

Sunshine Coast Overall Liveability Index

Sunshine Coast Overall Liveability Index 60.3

August 2023 Overall Liveability Index

August 2023 Overall Liveability Index 60.9

Sunshine Coast
August 2023
Results sorted by importance in Sunshine Coast
Importance
Experience
69%
6.8
66%
6.9
Importance
Experience
66%
8.1
68%
8.1
Importance
Experience
45%
4.0
44%
4.0
Importance
Experience
44%
4.2
43%
4.4
Importance
Experience
41%
6.8
46%
6.8
Importance
Experience
36%
6.7
39%
6.6
Importance
Experience
33%
6.1
32%
6.2
Importance
Experience
32%
5.3
29%
5.3
Importance
Experience
31%
4.4
29%
4.3
Importance
Experience
21%
5.1
21%
5.3
Importance
Experience
17%
6.4
18%
6.4
Importance
Experience
15%
6.7
16%
6.8
Importance
Experience
13%
6.1
14%
6.0
Importance
Experience
13%
6.0
12%
6.1
Importance
Experience
11%
6.8
10%
6.7
Importance
Experience
11%
4.9
12%
4.9

When asked to select the five attributes that they believe make somewhere a good place to live, residents of Sunshine Coast 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, Sunshine Coast residents’ most positive experiences included [exp ATTRIBUTE 1 & (mean)], [exp ATTRIBUTE 2 & (mean)] and [imp ATTRIBUTE 3 & (mean)].

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