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EXPLANATORY NOTES (Link to Explanatory Notes page 29)

GLOSSARY (Link to Glossary page 30)

		Unit	Cambooya (S)	Chinchilla (S)	Clifton (S)	Crow's Nest (S)	Dalby (T)	Goondiwindi (T)
LAND AREA - at 1 July 2003		km2	638	8,701	867	1,631	48	15
PROPORTION OF POPULATION IN REMOTENESS AREA - Census 2001
	Major cities	%	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
	Inner regional	%	100.0	0.0	100.0	96.8	100.0	0.0
	Outer regional	%	0.0	98.2	0.0	3.2	0.0	100.0
	Remote	%	0.0	1.8	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
	Very remote	%	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
POPULATION - at 30 June 2003
	Total - all persons	no.	5,425	6,078	2,491	11,115	10,124	4,957
	Aged 14 years and younger	no.	1,428	1,453	553	2,642	2,381	1,123
	Aged 15 years to 44 years	no.	2,269	2,241	810	4,255	4,294	2,201
	Aged 45 years to 64 years	no.	1,285	1,464	705	2,917	2,095	1,072
	Aged 65 years and over	no.	443	920	423	1,301	1,354	561
Proportion of total population
	Aged 14 years and younger	%	26.3	23.9	22.2	23.8	23.5	22.7
	Aged 15 years to 44 years	%	41.8	36.9	32.5	38.3	42.4	44.4
	Aged 45 years to 64 years	%	23.7	24.1	28.3	26.2	20.7	21.6
	Aged 65 years and over	%	8.2	15.1	17.0	11.7	13.4	11.3
Population density - 2003		persons/km2	8.5	0.7	2.9	6.8	211.7	338.8
Births - year ended 30 June 2003		no.	75	84	35	126	160	77
Crude birth rate - 2003		rate	14.0	13.8	14.1	11.6	15.8	15.6
Deaths - year ended 30 June 2003		no.	17	35	16	64	86	33
Crude death rate - 2003		rate	3.2	5.8	6.4	5.9	8.5	6.7
INDEX OF RELATIVE SOCIO- ECONOMIC ADVANTAGE/ DISADVANTAGE - Census 2001		decile	8	2	2	9	5	7
ESTIMATES OF UNEMPLOYMENT - September quarter 2003
	Unemployment	no.	91	165	54	171	327	132
	Unemployment rate	%	3.1	5.5	4.4	3.1	6.1	4.8
SELECTED INCOME SUPPORT CUSTOMERS - at June 2003
	Age pension	no.	235	668	272	887	797	319
	Disability support pension	no.	116	208	102	329	313	97
	Newstart allowance	no.	95	164	51	178	280	119
	Parenting payment - single	no.	82	115	50	145	262	101
	Youth allowance	no.	100	135	62	176	220	75
	Other pensions and allowances	no.	191	344	173	416	357	100
	Total selected income support customers	no.	820	1,635	711	2,131	2,229	811
	Percentage of long-term Newstart allowance customers	%	59.6	63.4	50.2	na	60.3	54.5
AVERAGE INDIVIDUAL ANNUAL TAXABLE INCOME - year ended 30 June 2003		$	33,338	31,065	29,839	33,951	33,924	35,082
WAGE AND SALARY EARNERS - year ended 30 June 2002
	Wage and salary earners	no.	1,539	1,711	700	3,577	3,560	2,260
	Wage and salary income	$m	45.6	45.3	19.2	108.8	106.1	68.0
	Total income	$m	46.5	45.7	19.9	113.0	109.8	70.4
	Average wage and salary income	$	29,626	26,458	27,415	30,424	29,796	30,088
	Average total income	$	30,238	26,682	28,416	31,600	30,842	31,135
SOURCE OF PERSONAL INCOME - year ended 30 June 2001
	Proportion of total personal income
	Wage and salary	%	71.1	59.2	63.5	69.4	71.0	69.8
	Own unincorporated business	%	5.6	14.8	7.8	10.3	6.1	9.5
	Investment	%	7.1	6.5	6.5	5.9	8.1	12.2
	Superannuation and annuity	%	1.5	1.1	1.2	2.1	1.0	1.0
	Government cash benefit	%	13.6	18.1	20.3	11.6	13.5	7.3
	Other income	%	1.1	0.2	0.7	0.7	0.3	0.2
Total personal income from all sources		$m	32.3	79.1	29.1	155.4	162.3	98.7
BUILDING APPROVALS - year ended 30 June 2003
	Private sector houses	no.	46	15	19	197	10	24
	Total dwelling units	no.	46	15	19	201	10	26
	Value of total residential building	$m	8.6	2.1	2.5	30.7	2.3	4.4
	Value of total non-residential building	$m	1.4	1.0	-	1.7	4.0	4.2
	Value of total building	$m	10.0	3.1	2.5	32.4	6.3	8.6
NEW MOTOR VEHICLE SALES - year ended 30 June 2003
	Passenger vehicles	no.	52	81	25	129	210	87
	Other vehicles	no.	76	118	34	153	219	197
	Total vehicles	no.	128	198	59	282	429	284
VALUE OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION - year ended 30 June 2001
	Value of crops	$m	19.4	42.4	15.7	24.0	1.5	*
	Value of livestock slaughterings and other disposals	$m	5.5	59.6	21.1	15.7	0.8	-
	Value of livestock products	$m	3.5	2.2	2.4	9.3	-	-
	Total value of agriculture	$m	28.5	104.3	39.3	49.0	2.3	*
LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCES - 2003-04
	Operating revenues	$'000	8,739	13,491	5,241	17,710	13,141	6,708
	Total expenses	$'000	6,164	13,647	4,225	12,676	11,327	5,204
	Total assets	$'000	38,814	74,298	43,121	106,373	86,802	56,147
	Total liabilities	$'000	1,438	4,288	925	7,134	2,058	3,925
	Net debt	$'000	-3,021	-5,651	-5,561	989	-1,505	-2,332
	Net financial worth	$'000	2,257	4,899	5,246	-2,755	-9	2,357
TOURIST ACCOMMODATION - 30 June 2004
	Establishments	no.	-	np	-	-	6	10
	Rooms/units at 30 June 2004	no.	-	np	-	-	145	234
	Room occupancy rate	%	-	np	-	-	56.5	60.2
	Takings from accommodation	$'000	-	np	-	-	2,444	3,890
NUMBER OF SINGLE LOCATION BUSINESSES - 30 June 2001		no.	655	1,004	512	1,326	1,185	927
HOUSING SALES AND VALUES - 31 December 2004
	Number of sales	no.	145	186	54	120	381	154
	House prices - median value	$	177,000	114,500	108,000	248,000	130,000	176,000
	House prices - average value	$	193,654	121,804	111,056	254,810	133,987	194,244
SCHOOLS AND STUDENTS - August 2004
	Government schools	no.	5	7	6	4	3	2
	Government school students	no.	289	970	452	1,144	1,375	1,104
	Non-government schools	no.	-	2	1	2	3	1
	Non-government school students	no.	-	95	63	477	1,031	158
MOTOR VEHICLES ON REGISTER - 31 March 2004(a)
	Passenger cars and motor cycles	no.	2,270	2,649	1,251	5,342	4,561	2,342
	Light commercial vehicles	no.	898	1,467	634	1,962	1,997	1,631
	Trucks, prime movers, and buses	no.	295	548	335	527	656	492
na not available np not available for publication but included in totals where applicable * Estimate has a relative standard error of between 25% and 50%. Data are subject to sampling variability too high for most practical purposes. - 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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