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EXPLANATORY NOTES (Link to Explanatory Notes page 29)

GLOSSARY (Link to Glossary page 30)

		Unit	Hervey Bay (C)	Isis (S)	Kilkivan (S)	Kingaroy (S)	Kolan (S)	Maryborough (C)	Miriam Vale (S)
LAND AREA - at 1 July 2003		km2	2,356	1,701	3,264	2,422	2,650	1,234	3,778
PROPORTION OF POPULATION IN REMOTENESS AREA - Census 2001
	Major cities	%	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
	Inner regional	%	92.0	0.0	0.0	83.2	0.0	99.0	0.0
	Outer regional	%	7.7	100.0	100.0	16.8	100.0	0.0	99.7
	Remote	%	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.3
	Very remote	%	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
POPULATION - at 30 June 2003
	Total - all persons	no.	46,732	6,007	3,264	12,153	4,547	25,505	4,822
	Aged 14 years and younger	no.	9,012	1,112	687	2,807	1,026	5,251	981
	Aged 15 years to 44 years	no.	15,599	1,937	1,099	4,758	1,532	9,163	1,653
	Aged 45 years to 64 years	no.	13,006	1,939	1,017	2,896	1,487	6,545	1,670
	Aged 65 years and over	no.	9,115	1,019	461	1,692	502	4,546	518
Proportion of total population
	Aged 14 years and younger	%	19.3	18.5	21.0	23.1	22.6	20.6	20.3
	Aged 15 years to 44 years	%	33.4	32.2	33.7	39.2	33.7	35.9	34.3
	Aged 45 years to 64 years	%	27.8	32.3	31.2	23.8	32.7	25.7	34.6
	Aged 65 years and over	%	19.5	17.0	14.1	13.9	11.0	17.8	10.7
Population density - 2003		persons/km2	19.8	3.5	1.0	5.0	1.7	20.7	1.3
Births - year ended 30 June 2003		no.	396	53	27	168	59	273	37
Crude birth rate - 2003		rate	8.7	8.9	8.3	13.9	12.8	10.7	7.8
Deaths - year ended 30 June 2003		no.	469	56	25	101	36	231	18
Crude death rate - 2003		rate	10.3	9.4	7.7	8.4	7.8	9.1	3.8
INDEX OF RELATIVE SOCIO- ECONOMIC ADVANTAGE/ DISADVANTAGE - Census 2001		decile	2	1	1	5	1	2	1
ESTIMATES OF UNEMPLOYMENT - September quarter 2003
	Unemployment	no.	2,452	314	152	481	287	1,360	256
	Unemployment rate	%	15.2	13.3	10.3	8.2	16.1	12.7	13.8
SELECTED INCOME SUPPORT CUSTOMERS - at June 2003
	Age pension	no.	7,647	709	339	1,278	443	3,336	402
	Disability support pension	no.	3,162	433	182	513	419	1,646	338
	Newstart allowance	no.	2,103	307	132	361	284	1,113	275
	Parenting payment - single	no.	1,568	137	87	261	165	759	141
	Youth allowance	no.	1,163	102	69	249	121	646	74
	Other pensions and allowances	no.	3,544	464	192	498	413	1,450	387
	Total selected income support customers	no.	19,186	2,153	1,000	3,160	1,845	8,950	1,618
	Percentage of long-term Newstart allowance customers	%	63.2	63.0	61.7	61.7	66.7	72.4	73.9
AVERAGE INDIVIDUAL ANNUAL TAXABLE INCOME - year ended 30 June 2003		$	31,987	30,213	29,972	34,420	28,929	32,942	32,097
WAGE AND SALARY EARNERS - year ended 30 June 2002
	Wage and salary earners	no.	11,316	1,584	856	3,999	998	7,726	1,109
	Wage and salary income	$m	313.9	41.4	23.4	125.3	25.9	225.0	32.6
	Total income	$m	334.6	43.6	23.7	127.5	26.9	235.7	34.0
	Average wage and salary income	$	27,741	26,160	27,336	31,337	25,983	29,126	29,385
	Average total income	$	29,567	27,533	27,655	31,885	26,970	30,506	30,618
SOURCE OF PERSONAL INCOME - year ended 30 June 2001
	Proportion of total personal income
	Wage and salary	%	53.8	57.1	56.7	68.6	48.7	64.5	56.6
	Own unincorporated business	%	6.6	5.2	14.5	7.4	9.7	4.7	8.9
	Investment	%	5.9	6.9	3.8	4.2	4.2	4.7	4.8
	Superannuation and annuity	%	3.9	3.1	1.3	1.7	2.1	2.3	1.9
	Government cash benefit	%	29.0	27.2	23.1	17.8	34.9	23.4	27.1
	Other income	%	0.8	0.5	0.6	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.7
Total personal income from all sources		$m	596.4	70.5	39.3	194.0	56.8	331.8	57.2
BUILDING APPROVALS - year ended 30 June 2003
	Private sector houses	no.	901	49	15	57	20	71	73
	Total dwelling units	no.	995	53	15	70	20	72	133
	Value of total residential building	$m	130.7	7.5	1.4	9.0	1.1	11.6	19.8
	Value of total non-residential building	$m	28.4	0.6	0.3	2.0	0.1	10.5	2.3
	Value of total building	$m	159.0	8.2	1.6	11.0	1.2	22.0	22.1
NEW MOTOR VEHICLE SALES - year ended 30 June 2003
	Passenger vehicles	no.	774	73	53	233	33	456	37
	Other vehicles	no.	590	76	46	218	61	382	95
	Total vehicles	no.	1,364	149	99	450	94	838	132
VALUE OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION - year ended 30 June 2001
	Value of crops	$m	6.3	68.8	5.5	25.6	16.4	5.0	6.7
	Value of livestock slaughterings and other disposals	$m	2.6	4.2	74.6	19.6	8.8	0.6	11.2
	Value of livestock products	$m	0.6	0.2	4.5	2.2	0.6	0.5	1.8
	Total value of agriculture	$m	9.4	73.1	84.6	47.4	25.8	6.1	19.7
LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCES - 2003-04
	Operating revenues	$'000	76,519	18,256	8,654	13,795	8,190	26,479	15,864
	Total expenses	$'000	59,400	14,712	7,003	12,263	7,728	24,150	9,599
	Total assets	$'000	660,132	82,675	43,089	114,917	39,965	276,830	104,589
	Total liabilities	$'000	60,921	7,233	1,247	7,752	2,529	19,945	8,125
	Net debt	$'000	30,365	1,083	-1,538	479	909	8,498	-4,597
	Net financial worth	$'000	105,110	-1,636	1,210	-2,087	-1,359	-11,516	2,759
TOURIST ACCOMMODATION - 30 June 2004
	Establishments	no.	18	np	-	4	np	14	np
	Rooms/units at 30 June 2004	no.	709	np	-	114	np	712	np
	Room occupancy rate	%	52.5	np	-	63.9	np	48.1	np
	Takings from accommodation	$'000	11,280	np	-	1,982	np	11,801	np
NUMBER OF SINGLE LOCATION BUSINESSES - 30 June 2001		no.	3,299	688	485	1,450	698	1,885	780
HOUSING SALES AND VALUES - 31 December 2004
	Number of sales	no.	1,341	95	30	296	41	726	47
	House prices - median value	$	262,000	168,000	100,000	159,250	91,000	168,000	150,000
	House prices - average value	$	283,448	227,159	109,758	171,253	112,098	177,860	269,730
SCHOOLS AND STUDENTS - August 2004
	Government schools	no.	11	5	4	8	6	10	6
	Government school students	no.	6,078	900	349	2,117	948	4,143	773
	Non-government schools	no.	6	1	-	2	-	3	-
	Non-government school students	no.	1,628	85	-	507	-	1,538	-
MOTOR VEHICLES ON REGISTER - 31 March 2004(a)
	Passenger cars and motor cycles	no.	25,889	3,022	1,571	5,978	2,262	13,301	2,400
	Light commercial vehicles	no.	5,228	1,188	680	2,162	1,005	3,442	1,143
	Trucks, prime movers, and buses	no.	1,298	281	254	692	288	966	307
np not available for publication but included in totals where applicable - nil or rounded to zero (including null cells) (a) Vehicles registered out of the state, or vehicles where the postcodes of owners could not be allocated to an LGA/SD are excluded. As a result, the Queensland totals do not agree with totals published in Motor Vehicle Census, Australia (cat. no. 9309.0), where these vehicles are included as 'Out of state/unspecified'.

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