4609.0.55.003 - Land Account: Queensland, Experimental Estimates, 2011 - 2016 Quality Declaration 
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MEDIA RELEASE
15 June 2017
Embargoed: 11:30 am (Canberra time)
63/2017
Residential land in Queensland valued at $518.7 billion

The ABS has for the first time released new information showing changes in land values, use and cover for the entire state of Queensland.

It showed that total land in Queensland covered approximately 173.0 million hectares and had a total unimproved land value of $721.5 billion as at 30 June 2016, up 16% from $621.4 billion as at 30 June 2011, according to the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

"The increase in total unimproved land value was largely driven by a 25% increase in the value of Residential land from $415.0 billion in 2011 to $518.7 billion in 2016," said Mike Booth, Director of Environmental Accounts Development at the ABS.

"Similarly Residential land area also increased 18% between 2011 and 2016. This increase in land area was largely at the expense of primary production land use types, including a net increase of 22,087 hectares to Residential land from Livestock Grazing land."

The area of Waterbodies and Wetlands land cover showed an overall decrease of 191,231 hectares (or 18%) and 512,344 hectares (or 48%) between the two intervals 2010-2011 and 2014-2015 respectively.

"These decreases in Waterbodies and Wetlands land cover are likely related to an overall decrease in total rainfall across these same accounting periods, as reported by the Bureau of Meteorology," said Mr Booth.

Summary data on land use, land cover and land parcels has been produced for Statistical Area Level 2 (SA2s) within Queensland for this publication.

"This data provides users an opportunity to explore stocks and changes in land for small geographical regions," explained Mr Booth.

The publication also presents a Feature Article which accounts for land changes within the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) region. This information will provide a foundation for the ABS Experimental Environmental-Economic Accounts for the Great Barrier Reef due for release in August 2017.

Further details can be found in the Land Account, Queensland, Experimental Estimates, 2011-2016 (cat. no. 4609.0.55.003) available as a free download from download from www.abs.gov.au.

Media notes:
  • The State of Queensland contains 15 Natural Resource Management Regions (NRMRs): Burnett Mary, Cape York, Condamine, Cooperative Management Area, Desert Channels, Fitzroy, Burdekin, Northern Gulf, Border Rivers Maranoa-Balonne, Mackay Whitsunday, South East Queensland, South West Queensland, Southern Gulf, Wet Tropics and Torres Strait.
  • The GBR region contains 6 NRMRs: Burnett Mary, Cape York, Fitzroy, Burdekin, Mackay Whitsunday and Wet Tropics.
  • When reporting ABS data, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (or ABS) must be attributed as the source.
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