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Charters Towers Regional Demographic Profile
The Charters Towers LGA (formerly the shires of Dalrymple and Charters Towers City) recorded an average annual population decline of 0.1% between 2001 and 2006. The proportion of females increased slightly by 0.5 percentage points over the same period to account for 50.1% of the population in 2006.
The average age of Charters Towers residents increased by 1.9 years between 2001 and 2006 to 36.6 years, in line with state trends. Furthermore, both the proportion of persons younger than 15 and persons younger than 65 declined over the same period.
Between 2001 and 2006 the proportion of persons born in Australia increased by 0.6 percentage points and the proportion of persons who spoke English only decreased by 0.6 percentage points.
The proportion of persons aged 15 years or older who are married fell by 1.3 percentage points to 51.0% in 2006, while the ratio of persons nominating Christianity as their religious denomination declined by 3.0 percentage points over the same period.
The average weekly income in the Charters Towers region grew by 27.1% between 2001 and 2006 to total $523, $47 less than the state average.
The Retail Trade sector is the largest employer in the region accounting for 13.9% of employment. The next largest sectors by employment are Mining (13.1%), followed by Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing (13.1%), Education (11.2%) and then Health and Community services (10.6%).
Charters Towers recorded an unemployment rate of 6.4% in 2006, the highest of any LGA in the MITEZ region. The proportion of persons aged 15 years or older who completed schooling to year 12 or equivalent increased by 2.3 percentage points in the five years since 2001, to account for 28.2% of the population in 2006.
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Charters
Towers Region Demographic Profile
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Indicator
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2001
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2006
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change
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Population
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12,242
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12,180
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-0.5%
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Gender
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Males
(%)
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50.4%
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49.9%
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-0.5%
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Females
(%)
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49.6%
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50.1%
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0.5%
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Age
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Average
age (years)
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34.7
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36.6
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1.9
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Aged
>15 years (%)
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25.0%
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23.6%
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-1.4%
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Aged
>65 years (%)
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87.8%
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86.4%
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-1.3%
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Ethnicity
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Born
in Australia (%)
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87.7%
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88.3%
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0.6%
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Language
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Speak
English only (%)
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94.2%
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93.7%
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-0.6%
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Speak
other language (%)
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1.2%
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1.7%
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0.5%
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Marital
Status
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Married
(%)
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52.2%
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51.0%
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-1.3%
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Never
married (%)
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37.5%
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38.3%
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0.8%
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Religious
Denomination
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Christians
(%)
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74.8%
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71.7%
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-3.0%
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Weekly
Income
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Avg
weekly income ($)
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414
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526
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27.1%
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Income
greater than $300
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38.9%
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44.8%
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5.9%
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Computer
/ Internet Usage
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Use
the Internet (%)
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24.8%
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46.3%
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21.6%
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Qualifications
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Qualification
(%)
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25.9%
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28.2%
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2.3%
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Labour
Market
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Unemployment
rate (%)
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7.4%
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6.4%
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-1.0%
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Industry
employment
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Retail
trade (%)
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14.7%
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13.9%
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-0.8%
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Mining
(%)
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12.3%
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13.1%
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0.9%
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Agriculture
(%)
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13.8%
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13.1%
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-0.7%
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Education
(%)
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11.3%
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11.2%
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-0.1%
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Hlth
& comm serv (%)
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9.3%
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10.6%
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1.3%
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