Sunshine Coast community views

The Community Views team surveyed 377 residents from Urban A in August 2023.

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About the Living in Place community survey
Understanding Health and Wellbeing
Understanding Housing
Understanding Transport Infrastructure
Understanding Social Infrastructure
Understanding Financial Wellbeing and Economic Confidence
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Urban A in Sunshine Coast

Urban A is made up of Aroona, Baringa, Battery Hill, Bells Creek, Caloundra, Caloundra West, Currimundi, Dicky Beach, Golden Beach, Kings Beach, Little Mountain, Meridan Plains, Moffat Beach, Nirimba, Pelican Waters, and Shelly Beach.

Living in Urban A

Urban A Overall Liveability Index
Sunshine Coast
60.9
Rural 1
59.0
Rural 2
57.2
Urban B
64.7
Urban C
62.0
Urban D
61.6
Collected August 2023

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.

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Urban A Overall Liveability Index

Sunshine Coast Overall Liveability Index

Urban A
Sunshine Coast
Importance
Experience
Natural environment
70%
8.3
68%
8.1
Feeling safe
68%
7.0
66%
6.9
Health services
52%
6.9
46%
6.8
A lack of road congestion
44%
3.4
44%
4.0
Affordable decent housing
40%
4.7
43%
4.4
Shopping, leisure & dining
35%
6.3
32%
6.2
Sense of community
34%
6.5
39%
6.6
Public transport
29%
4.6
29%
4.3
Making your way
29%
5.1
29%
5.3
Good job prospects
20%
5.3
21%
5.3
Social cohesion
18%
6.4
18%
6.4
Opportunity for all
15%
6.0
14%
6.0
Education
14%
6.9
16%
6.8
A prosperous economy
12%
6.2
12%
6.1
Cultural facilities
10%
5.7
12%
4.9
Sports and recreation
10%
7.0
10%
6.7
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Health and Wellbeing in Urban A

Physical Health
How would you rate your physical health?
Do you think your physical health will get better, worse or stay the same over the next year?
Urban A (n = 377)
7.4
Very poor
Excellent
Sunshine Coast (n = 1734)
7.3
Very poor
Excellent
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Urban A (n = 377)
10%
56%
34%
Get worse
Stay the same
Get better
Sunshine Coast (n = 1734)
10%
59%
31%
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Mental Health
How would you rate your mental health?
Do you think your mental health will get better, worse or stay the same over the next year?
Urban A (n = 377)
7.6
Very poor
Excellent
Sunshine Coast (n = 1734)
7.5
Very poor
Excellent
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Urban A (n = 377)
9%
65%
26%
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Stay the same
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Sunshine Coast (n = 1734)
9%
68%
24%
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Social wellbeing
How would you rate your social wellbeing?
Do you think your social wellbeing will get better, worse or stay the same over the next year?
Urban A (n = 377)
7.2
Very poor
Excellent
Sunshine Coast (n = 1734)
7.2
Very poor
Excellent
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Urban A (n = 377)
6%
70%
23%
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Sunshine Coast (n = 1734)
10%
70%
21%
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Financial circumstances in Urban A

How would you rate your personal financial circumstances?
Do you think your personal financial circumstance will get worse, stay the same or get better over the next year?
Urban A (n = 377)
6.2
Very poor
Excellent
Sunshine Coast (n = 1734)
6.1
Very poor
Excellent
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Urban A (n = 377)
27%
50%
23%
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Stay the same
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Sunshine Coast (n = 1734)
30%
50%
20%
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How often, if ever, are you late meeting your financial commitments?
Do you think the economic situation in your local area will get worse, stay the same or get better over the next year?
Urban A (n = 377)
Sunshine Coast (n = 1637)
Always late
1%
1%
Often late
4%
4%
Sometimes late
18%
22%
Never late
77%
73%
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Urban A (n = 377)
48%
43%
9%
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Stay the same
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Sunshine Coast (n = 1734)
47%
43%
9%
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Concerns & ideas in Urban A

What are the top three issues facing your local area?
Urban A (n = 377)
Sunshine Coast (n = 1734)
Inflation/Cost of Living
56%
59%
Housing/Price of Housing
54%
52%
Population/Overpopulation
32%
32%
Transport/Public Transport/Infrastructure
30%
27%
Crime/Law and Order/Violence/Anti-Social Behaviour
26%
24%
Petrol Prices/Fuel
19%
20%
Household Debt/Personal Debt
15%
15%
The Economy
13%
13%
Healthcare/Hospitals
13%
12%
Environmental/Pollution/Water Concerns
11%
12%
Poverty/Inequality
8%
9%
Drug/Alcohol Abuse
7%
9%
Unemployment
6%
6%
Taxation
4%
4%
Education
3%
2%
Immigration
2%
2%
Race Relations/Racism
2%
1%
Issues Facing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
0%
1%
Defence/Foreign Affairs/Terrorism
0%
1%
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