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LEARN MORE ABOUT .idAssuming all households were the same size, the 'lowest' quartile was the largest income group in Harristown 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 Harristown.
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.
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Equivalised household income quartiles | |||||||
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Harristown - Households (Enumerated) | 2021 | 2001 | Change | ||||
Quartile group | Number | % | Kingsthorpe - Gowrie Junction and District % | Number | % | Kingsthorpe - Gowrie Junction and District % | 2001 to 2021 |
Lowest group | 1,274 | 36.8 | 22.1 | 852 | 31.5 | 21.7 | +422 |
Medium lowest | 997 | 28.8 | 26.3 | 854 | 31.6 | 30.9 | +143 |
Medium highest | 787 | 22.7 | 29.9 | 624 | 23.1 | 28.8 | +162 |
Highest group | 405 | 11.7 | 21.7 | 375 | 13.9 | 18.5 | +30 |
Total Households | 3,465 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 2,707 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +758 |
Equivalised household income - Quartile group dollar ranges | |||||
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Calculated from income data for Queensland | Weekly income by Census year | ||||
Equivalised household income ranges | 2021 | 2016 | 2011 | 2006 | 2001 |
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 |
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 Harristown compared to Kingsthorpe - Gowrie Junction and District shows that there was a lesser proportion of households in the highest equivalised income quartile, and a greater proportion in the lowest equivalised income quartile.
The most significant change in Harristown between 2001 and 2021 was in the lowest quartile which showed an increase of 422 households.
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