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EXPLANATORY NOTES (Link to Explanatory Notes page 29)

GLOSSARY (Link to Glossary page 30)

		Unit	Balonne (S)	Bendemere (S)	Booringa (S)	Bulloo (S)	Bungil (S)
LAND AREA - at 1 July 2003		km2	31,144	3,928	27,827	73,805	13,338
PROPORTION OF POPULATION IN REMOTENESS AREA - Census 2001
	Major cities	%	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
	Inner regional	%	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
	Outer regional	%	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
	Remote	%	89.2	100.0	73.9	0.0	100.0
	Very remote	%	10.8	0.0	26.1	100.0	0.0
POPULATION - at 30 June 2003
	Total - all persons	no.	5,611	988	1,877	470	1,979
	Aged 14 years and younger	no.	1,476	250	414	100	437
	Aged 15 years to 44 years	no.	2,505	339	717	236	771
	Aged 45 years to 64 years	no.	1,178	241	488	96	516
	Aged 65 years and over	no.	452	158	258	38	255
Proportion of total population
	Aged 14 years and younger	%	26.3	25.3	22.1	21.3	22.1
	Aged 15 years to 44 years	%	44.6	34.3	38.2	50.2	39.0
	Aged 45 years to 64 years	%	21.0	24.4	26.0	20.4	26.1
	Aged 65 years and over	%	8.1	16.0	13.7	8.1	12.9
Population density - 2003		persons/km2	0.2	0.3	0.1	-	0.1
Births - year ended 30 June 2003		no.	102	12	22	8	23
Crude birth rate - 2003		rate	18.2	12.1	11.7	17.0	11.7
Deaths - year ended 30 June 2003		no.	26	5	13	-	8
Crude death rate - 2003		rate	4.6	5.0	6.9	0.0	4.1
INDEX OF RELATIVE SOCIO- ECONOMIC ADVANTAGE/ DISADVANTAGE - Census 2001		decile	5	2	3	4	8
ESTIMATES OF UNEMPLOYMENT - September quarter 2003
	Unemployment	no.	123	17	34	1	28
	Unemployment rate	%	3.7	3.1	3.1	0.3	2.1
SELECTED INCOME SUPPORT CUSTOMERS - at June 2003
	Age pension	no.	298	98	155	24	129
	Disability support pension	no.	130	31	51	na	45
	Newstart allowance	no.	142	22	33	na	21
	Parenting payment - single	no.	120	na	24	na	39
	Youth allowance	no.	78	na	22	na	27
	Other pensions and allowances	no.	177	52	85	na	59
	Total selected income support customers	no.	945	238	370	59	320
	Percentage of long-term Newstart allowance customers	%	50.7	na	na	na	na
AVERAGE INDIVIDUAL ANNUAL TAXABLE INCOME - year ended 30 June 2003		$	33,481	33,936	29,302	32,319	34,354
WAGE AND SALARY EARNERS - year ended 30 June 2002
	Wage and salary earners	no.	2,017	250	509	152	777
	Wage and salary income	$m	58.4	6.4	13.2	4.5	23.1
	Total income	$m	58.7	6.4	13.2	4.7	23.5
	Average wage and salary income	$	28,947	25,758	25,847	29,529	29,773
	Average total income	$	29,103	25,493	26,030	31,036	30,192
SOURCE OF PERSONAL INCOME - year ended 30 June 2001
	Proportion of total personal income
	Wage and salary	%	67.3	44.8	51.6	62.4	55.0
	Own unincorporated business	%	11.1	36.0	29.4	28.7	29.3
	Investment	%	11.9	3.9	4.6	3.0	7.7
	Superannuation and annuity	%	0.5	0.5	0.7	0.6	0.6
	Government cash benefit	%	8.9	14.3	13.5	4.6	7.0
	Other income	%	0.3	0.6	0.2	0.5	0.4
Total personal income from all sources		$m	90.7	12.4	26.0	6.5	42.9
BUILDING APPROVALS - year ended 30 June 2003
	Private sector houses	no.	7	-	1	-	5
	Total dwelling units	no.	10	-	1	-	5
	Value of total residential building	$m	2.1	-	0.1	-	1.0
	Value of total non-residential building	$m	1.7	-	-	-	-
	Value of total building	$m	3.8	-	0.1	-	1.0
NEW MOTOR VEHICLE SALES - year ended 30 June 2003
	Passenger vehicles	no.	44	11	14	2	29
	Other vehicles	no.	154	39	30	36	70
	Total vehicles	no.	198	49	44	37	99
VALUE OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION - year ended 30 June 2001
	Value of crops	$m	146.4	9.3	9.7	-	20.5
	Value of livestock slaughterings and other disposals	$m	46.6	18.1	40.1	35.2	101.5
	Value of livestock products	$m	16.4	0.1	7.2	3.6	1.3
	Total value of agriculture	$m	209.4	27.5	57.0	38.7	123.2
LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCES - 2003-04
	Operating revenues	$'000	10,625	4,715	9,297	10,762	8,358
	Total expenses	$'000	11,404	4,094	9,971	9,965	8,029
	Total assets	$'000	77,371	35,539	83,823	54,774	77,529
	Total liabilities	$'000	5,597	283	1,144	2,604	1,686
	Net debt	$'000	1,487	-5,172	-1,459	-2,998	-1,911
	Net financial worth	$'000	-1,596	5,481	890	1,996	2,354
TOURIST ACCOMMODATION - 30 June 2004
	Establishments	no.	7	-	np	-	-
	Rooms/units at 30 June 2004	no.	143	-	np	-	-
	Room occupancy rate	%	38.3	-	np	-	-
	Takings from accommodation	$'000	1,527	-	np	-	-
NUMBER OF SINGLE LOCATION BUSINESSES - 30 June 2001		no.	994	294	349	56	480
HOUSING SALES AND VALUES - 31 December 2004
	Number of sales	no.	84	9	35	np	9
	House prices - median value	$	115,250	75,000	47,000	np	35,000
	House prices - average value	$	122,787	55,444	55,243	np	36,667
SCHOOLS AND STUDENTS - August 2004
	Government schools	no.	6	2	2	1	3
	Government school students	no.	621	121	147	21	114
	Non-government schools	no.	1	-	1	-	-
	Non-government school students	no.	197	-	57	-	-
MOTOR VEHICLES ON REGISTER - 31 March 2004(a)
	Passenger cars and motor cycles	no.	1,998	427	616	169	859
	Light commercial vehicles	no.	1,723	374	506	232	609
	Trucks, prime movers, and buses	no.	426	127	148	83	213
na not available 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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