From 2004 to 2006, the size of the typical home purchased increased by about 100 square feet to 1,840 square feet, while
the median number of bedrooms dropped from four to three during the same period.
Area - level explanatory variables will include: accessibility and remoteness, as measured by the Accessibility / Remoteness Index
of Australia Plus (ARIA +); 54 socioeconomic disadvantage, as measured by the Australian Bureau
of Statistics (ABS) Socioeconomic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA); 55 presence
of Aboriginal Medical Services; presence
of an AMIHS; proportion
of Aboriginal pregnancies / births in an area managed by an AMIHS;
numbers of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children attending preschool;
numbers of full - time equivalent health workers (including general medical practitioners, nurses, midwives and Aboriginal health workers) per 10 000 population; measures
of social capital from the NSW Population Health Survey; 56 features
of local communities (derived from ABS Census data), such as information on
median personal and household income, mortgage repayment and rent; average
number of persons per
bedroom and household size; employment; non-school qualifications and housing type for Aboriginal residents in each area.57
Median Rent Price for 1 -
bedroom property — $ 1,100 / mo
Median Resale Price — $ 601,000 Price increase in last 3 years — 32 % They say
numbers speak louder than words, so let me use this rule on behalf
of Edgewater.
Higher - paying jobs not materializing: Six
of the seven occupations projected to add the greatest
number of jobs by 2024 provide a
median wage that is not sufficient to afford a modest one -
bedroom rental home.