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FAMILY TAX BENEFIT
Family tax benefit is split into two payments:
- Part A is designed to help parents or guardians of children with the cost of raising those children
- Part B provides extra assistance to single income families, including sole parents, and especially families with a child under 5 years of age.
At 30 June 2003 there were 145.4 persons receiving the Family Tax Benefit per 1,000 persons in the local government area of Brighton, the highest rate in Tasmania. Hobart had the lowest rate with 65.2 recipients per 1,000 persons.
RECIPIENTS OF FAMILY TAX BENEFIT, Tasmanian local government areas(a)(b) 30 June 2003 |
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 |  | Recipients | Estimated resident population -
as at 30 June 2003(c) |
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Local government area |
no.
|
crude rate(d)
(per 1,000 persons)
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no.
|
median age
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| Greater Hobart-Southern |  |  |  |  |
 | Brighton | 1,901 | 145.4 | 13,070 | 37 |
 | Central Highlands | 308 | 131.6 | 2,341 | 46 |
 | Clarence | 4,959 | 99.5 | 49,861 | 36 |
 | Derwent Valley | 1,148 | 122.1 | 9,402 | 37 |
 | Glamorgan/Spring Bay | 391 | 96.0 | 4,071 | 48 |
 | Glenorchy | 5,048 | 113.2 | 44,577 | 36 |
 | Hobart | 3,133 | 65.2 | 48,069 | 36 |
 | Huon Valley | 1,664 | 118.2 | 14,080 | 41 |
 | Kingborough | 3,037 | 100.1 | 30,327 | 36 |
 | Sorell | 1,423 | 127.6 | 11,155 | 41 |
 | Southern Midlands | 774 | 134.8 | 5,742 | 37 |
 | Tasman | 224 | 101.9 | 2,199 | 46 |
 | Total | 24,010 | 102.2 | 234,894 | 40 |
Northern |  | | | |
 | Break O'Day | 636 | 107.1 | 5,938 | 37 |
 | Dorset | 760 | 104.8 | 7,254 | 37 |
 | Flinders | 96 | 109.7 | 875 | 48 |
 | George Town | 755 | 113.0 | 6,680 | 44 |
 | Launceston | 6,395 | 101.0 | 63,337 | 36 |
 | Meander Valley | 1,986 | 108.7 | 18,275 | 37 |
 | Northern Midlands | 1,301 | 108.1 | 12,035 | 37 |
 | West Tamar | 2,241 | 108.4 | 20,673 | 36 |
 | Total | 14,170 | 104.9 | 135,067 | 39 |
Mersey-Lyell | | | | |
 | Burnie | 2,174 | 114.2 | 19,029 | 38 |
 | Central Coast | 2,196 | 104.4 | 21,032 | 37 |
 | Circular Head | 933 | 115.4 | 8,086 | 40 |
 | Devonport | 2,729 | 111.1 | 24,567 | 36 |
 | Kentish | 647 | 116.9 | 5,533 | 49 |
 | King Island | 135 | 80.5 | 1,677 | 47 |
 | Latrobe | 925 | 108.6 | 8,518 | 45 |
 | Waratah/Wynyard | 1,505 | 111.6 | 13,485 | 39 |
 | West Coast | 541 | 104.3 | 5,189 | 37 |
 | Total | 11,785 | 110.0 | 107,116 | 41 |
Tasmania(e) | 50,009 | 104.8 | 477,077 | 40 |
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(a) Data have been aggregated to local government areas from postcode data supplied by Centrelink. Consequently, some figures have been rounded.
(b) Small area data in this table has been confidentialised. Totals for Tasmania may differ from those published in Statistics - Tasmania.
(c) Source: ABS data available on request, Population by Age and Sex.
(d) This is a crude rate only. It has not been adjusted to take into account the population eligible to receive payment. Therefore, care should be taken when interpreting figures.
(e) Totals for Tasmania include those recipients whose local government area is unknown.
Source: Centrelink. |
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