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FACILITIES


ACCESS TO SPORTING FACILITIES BY INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES

The 2001 Community Housing and Infrastructure Needs Survey found that there were 327 Indigenous communities with a population of 50 or more. Of these, 213 (65.1%) had some form of sporting facilities while 108 (33.0%) had no sporting facilities at all. For the remaining 6 (1.8%), the information was not provided.

The sports facilities which were most common were outdoor courts and sports grounds. Of the communities with sports facilities, 82.6% (176) had outdoor courts and 77.9% (166) had sports grounds.

The state with the highest percentage of Indigenous communities lacking any sporting facilities was NSW where 53.1% (26) were in this situation. The state with the lowest percentage was Queensland where only 11.4% (5 communities) had no sporting facilities.

8.4 INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES WITH A POPULATION OF 50 OR MORE, Access to sporting facilities by state and territory - 2001
	COMMUNITIES WITH SPORTING FACILITIES
State or territory	Sports grounds	Outdoor courts	Indoor or covered sporting facilities	Swimming pools	Other buildings used for sport	Other community sporting facilities	No sporting facilities	All communities(a)
New South Wales	13	14	3	1	4	1	26	49
Queensland	27	29	7	5	17	2	5	44
South Australia	17	17	2	1	6	1	8	26
Western Australia	41	56	2	8	12	-	21	81
Northern Territory	66	58	15	7	15	5	48	124
Australia(b)	166	176	29	22	55	9	108	327
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)
(a) Includes 'Whether community has sporting facilities' not stated.
(b) Victoria and Tasmania included in Australia for confidentiality reasons. The Australian Capital Territory did not have any discrete Indigenous communities.
Source: Housing and Infrastructure in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities, Australia, 2001 (cat. no. 4710.0).