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RDA Darling Downs and South West Region

Equivalised household income

Assuming all households were the same size, the 'lowest' quartile was the largest income group in the RDA Darling Downs and South West Region in 2021.

While Household Income is a useful measure, it is difficult to tell if changes over time and between geographic areas are due to actual changes in income levels, or due to changes in household size and composition. For example, an increase in lower income households could be due to job losses in key economic sectors, or simply due to decreasing household size as adult children leave home.

Equivalised Household Income puts all households on an equal footing independent of household size and composition to enable a true comparison between areas and over time. It is an indicator of the income resource available to a household of standard size and is the best measure of the changing economic fortunes of households living in the RDA Darling Downs and South West Region.

A detailed explanation of how Equivalised Household Income quartiles are calculated and interpreted is available in specific data notes.

Learn more about the characteristics of low-income households here.

Q:

Derived from the Census question:

'What is the total of all wages/salaries, government benefits, pensions, allowances and other income the person usually receives?'

Equivalised household income quartiles
RDA Darling Downs and South West Region - Households (Enumerated)20212016Change
Quartile groupNumber%Paroo Shire %Number%Paroo Shire %2016 to 2021
Lowest group28,61930.349.224,85329.041.5+3,766
Medium lowest25,76627.320.823,24727.224.4+2,519
Medium highest22,53023.918.220,84824.418.9+1,683
Highest group17,40518.511.816,63419.415.3+771
Total Households94,322100.0100.085,584100.0100.0+8,738
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2016 and 2021. Compiled and presented by .id (informed decisions).
Please refer to specific data notes for more information
Equivalised household income - Quartile group dollar ranges
Calculated from income data for QueenslandWeekly income by Census year
Equivalised household income ranges20212016201120062001
Lowest group$0 to $591$0 to $501$0 to $444$0 to $362$0 to $277
Medium lowest$592 to $1,032$502 to $856$445 to $760$363 to $606$278 to $456
Medium highest$1,033 to $1,626$857 to $1,357$761 to $1,203$607 to $951$457 to $719
Highest group$1,627 and over$1,358 and over$1,204 and over$952 and over$720 and over

Dominant groups

Equivalised income quartiles allow us to compare relative income-earning capabilities across time. Because the data is equivalised, households of different size and composition are placed on an equal footing.

Analysis of the distribution of households by income quartile in the RDA Darling Downs and South West Region compared to Paroo Shire shows that there was a greater proportion of households in the highest equivalised income quartile, and a lesser proportion in the lowest equivalised income quartile.

Emerging groups

The most significant change in RDA Darling Downs and South West Region between 2016 and 2021 was in the lowest quartile which showed an increase of 3,766 households.

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