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Families receiving government pensions and benefits, 2001MAP
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In 2001, 39.4% of Australian families received government benefits including the Newstart allowance, parenting payment, rent assistance, Austudy payment and disability support pension.
A higher proportion of families received government benefits in Non-metropolitan areas than in Metropolitan areas (42.2% and 37.6% respectively).
The highest proportion of families receiving benefits occurred in the Remote region (46.2%), followed by Populated coastal (45.5%), Regional city (42.6%) and the Populated inland (38.2%).
Above average concentrations of families receiving government benefits (more than 50.0%) occurred in Alice Springs-Heavitree [710], Sandover [710], Tanami [710] and Petermann [710] and Victoria [710] in the Northern Territory.
Below average concentrations (less than 20.0%) occurred in Isisford [335], McKinlay [355] and Nebo [340] in Queensland; and Cleve [430] and Roxby Downs [435] in South Australia.
Income • 81
Families who receive some form of government pension or benefit including Newstart allowance, parenting payment, rent assistance, Austudy payment and disability support pension as a proportion of all families
Proportion in relation to non-metropolitan average
More than 20% above non-metro average (more than 50.6%)
5–20% above non-metro average (44.4 to 50.6%)
5% below to 5% above non-metro average (40.1 to 44.3%)
5–20% below non-metro average (33.8 to 40.0%)
More than 20% below non-metro average (less than 33.8%)
Metropolitan areas
Source: Department of Family and Community Services (customer data collected by Centrelink) – 2000/2001. Spatial units: Statistical Local Areas (SLA) ASGC 2001. Produced by: Bureau of Rural Sciences, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Australian Government © 2004.
Kilometres
0 500
Note; Slight variations between the Australian average and regional averages have occurred in this Atlas due to the comparison of aggregated unrandomised SLA counts (Australian average) with aggregated randomised SLA (regional averages).
Australia
MetropolitanNon-Metropolitan
Regional cityPopulated coastal
Populated inlandRemote
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Proportion of families receiving government benefits (%)