Maps

The latest Social Health Atlases of Australia can be accessed below, with interactive maps for the whole population by Population Health Area, Local Government Area, and Primary Health Network, and by Indigenous Area (also available by Indigenous status) for the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander population.

For information regarding the indicators or geographies, refer to the Social Health Atlas contents list or the geographical structures section of the website; for earlier release data, refer to the data archive.

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For a full list of revised indicators refer to the latest releases.

Whole Population

Social Health Atlas of Australia: Primary Health Networks

PHN Single maps - with component PHAs - View all areas and all indicators

The Primary Health Network (PHN) Single map template presents the indicators for all PHNs, including the component Population Health Areas (PHAs)/ part PHAs and totals for the Greater Capital City Statistical Areas/Rest of States/NT; States/Territories; and Australia, allowing users to explore and understand patterns and trends for a range of data sets. The map opens to PHAs; it can be changed to view PHNs under the Geography button, or the PHN boundary overlay can be added from the Legend box.

PHN Double maps - with component PHAs - Compare two indicators for an area

The PHN Double map template enables users to select two different indicators to compare on two synchronised maps within the same view. The two indicators are also presented as a Scatterplot, to assess potential correlations and highlight anomalies.

PHN Area profiles - with component PHAs* - View all indicators for any one area

The PHN Area profile template presents the indicators for each PHN in a single view using a spine chart. In this way users can readily see how the selected area compares with the national average percentage or rate for each indicator.

*For the Area profile templates to show any data, you must select an area by highlighting it on the map; selecting more than one area allows a comparison. Learn more ...

PHN Single maps - with component LGAs - View all areas and all indicators

The Primary Health Network (PHN) Single map template presents the indicators for all PHNs, including the component Local Government Areas (LGAs)/ part LGAs and totals for the Greater Capital City Statistical Areas/Rest of States/NT; States/Territories; and Australia, allowing users to explore and understand patterns and trends for a range of data sets. The map opens to LGAs; it can be changed to view PHNs under the Geography button, or the PHN boundary overlay can be added from the Legend box.

PHN Double maps - with component LGAs - Compare two indicators for an area

PHN Area profiles - with component LGAs* - View all indicators for any one area

*For the Area profile templates to show any data, you must select an area by highlighting it on the map; selecting more than one area allows a comparison. Learn more ...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Population - All Topics and Indicators

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Social Health Atlas of Australia: Indigenous Areas

Note: In the following atlases, as data could not be calculated for every Indigenous Area, some Indigenous Areas have been aggregated and have the same data points – to see these on the maps, turn on the ‘Modelled estimates - aggregated areas’ boundary overlay in the Legend box. The indicators with the most Indigenous Areas affected are the modelled estimates of Self-assessed health, Prevalence of selected chronic diseases and conditions and Prevalence of selected health risk factors; the data for the hospitalisation and emergency department data sets have also been aggregated for a number of Indigenous Areas in Queensland.

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander maps by IARE - Single maps - View all areas and all indicators

The Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander maps by Indigenous Area (IARE) Single map template presents the indicators for all Indigenous Areas and totals for the Greater Capital City Statistical Areas/Rest of States/NT; States/Territories; and Australia, allowing users to explore and understand patterns and trends for a range of data sets.

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander maps by IARE- Double maps - Compare two indicators for an area

The Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander maps by IARE Double map template enables users to select two different indicators to compare on two synchronised maps within the same view. The two indicators are also presented as a Scatterplot, to assess potential correlations and highlight anomalies.

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander maps by IARE - Area profiles* - View all indicators for any one area

The Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander maps by IARE Area profile template presents the indicators for each Indigenous Area in a single view using a spine chart. In this way users can readily see how the selected area compares with the national average percentage or rate for each indicator.

*For the Area profile templates to show any data, you must select an area by highlighting it on the map; selecting more than one area allows a comparison. Learn more ...

Topic-specific Atlases

Social Health Atlas of Australia: Topic-specific Atlases

COVID-19 and related topics

COVID-19 vaccination rates: Maps

The Australian Government Department of Health releases vaccination rates each week. The atlases will be updated periodically to show the latest coverage. They include a selection of demographic and socioeconomic status indicators from the Social Health Atlas of Australia.

The atlases are presented for the following:

Total population by LGA, including Time series and correlations

Children by LGA, including Time series and correlations

Adult booster vaccination rates, including Time series and correlations

Variations in COVID-19 vaccination uptake and cases for adults and children by Quintile of Socioeconomic Disadvantage of Area, including time series

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people by LGA and SA4, including Time series and correlations

COVID-19 cases, vaccination rates and selected demographic and socioeconomic status indicators: Maps

This atlas uses publicly-available data of Total case and Active case counts of COVID-19 as at late January to show patterns of distribution by Local Government Area (LGA) across those States with sufficient cases to map.

View COVID-19 impact on unemployment benefits Atlas (October 2020): supplemented with Emergency Department (ED) presentations for mental health-related conditions: Maps

One of the greatest impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Australia has been on jobs – in fact, the loss of jobs, as businesses have scaled down or closed. A major indicator of the impact of loss of jobs is the increase in the number of people receiving an unemployment benefit. In June 2019 there were just over three quarters of a million people receiving an unemployment benefit; by June 2020 this figure had more than doubled, to over one and a half million (the numbers are 769,555 and 1,614,412, respectively).

The associations at the suburb level between unemployment payments and socioeconomic disadvantage in capital cities are very strong, as shown in the chart below. However, correlations between ED presentations for mental health-related conditions and socioeconomic disadvantage are weaker, ranging from moderate to strong, indicating the more widespread nature of these conditions in the population. There are similar associations for other age groups.

Population group atlases

Whole population

View Child and Youth Social Health Atlas of Australia: Maps

Being healthy in childhood and as young people provides an important foundation for later life. This Child and Youth Social Health Atlas of Australia draws together data from other Social Health Atlases and unpublished data for those aged from 0 to 24 years. As such, it seeks to set the data on health status, use of health services and health outcomes alongside the demographic, social and economic characteristics of this population group in the communities where they live across Australia.

View Social Health Atlas of Older people in Australia: Maps

The Social Health Atlas of Older People in Australia (version 2), presents data on a range of population characteristics, including demography, socioeconomic status, health status and risk factors, and use of health and welfare services. This is available by Population Health Areas (PHA), Local Government Areas (LGA), Primary Health Networks (PHN), Aged Care Planning Regions (ACPR), Remoteness Area and Quintiles of Socioeconomic Disadvantage of Area.

View Housing Atlas: Maps

Adequate and affordable housing is an important determinant of health. This report explores the housing circumstances of different population groups, drawing on small area geographic data from the 2016 Census of Population and Housing, health surveys, income support payment datasets, and administrative health datasets (e.g., perinatal statistics, potentially preventable hospitalisations, mortality) to examine area-level associations between the housing circumstances of different population groups and housing circumstances and health outcomes.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population

View Closing the Gap Time Series Atlas: Maps

Closing the Gap seeks to improve the lives of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. This Time Series Atlas focuses on the Closing the Gap targets (targets as at February 2018) for the Aboriginal population, with comparisons with the non-Indigenous population, at the Indigenous Areas and Indigenous Regions level.

View Regional Centres Atlas: Maps

The Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) has developed the concept of Regional Centres, as an ‘important but often overlooked set of areas with particular policy and population dynamics.’ These 46 areas have a total population of between 10,000 and 250,000 with at least 1,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander usual residents. Using the Indigenous Atlas produced by PHIDU, this atlas expands on the demographic, mobility and socioeconomic measures used in CAEPR's original paper to further include indicators under the following themes, ‘Demographic and social indicators’, Health status, disease prevention, disability and deaths, and ‘ Use and provision of health and welfare services’.

Hot spot analysis: showing persistent inequality over time

View Emergency Department Presentations: identifying hotspots of inequality: Maps

Public hospital emergency departments are a key element of the Australian health system, providing care to people who need it urgently. Mapping of emergency department presentations over time in areas where patients live enables us to geographically examine the degree and persistence of the demand for, and, supply of, this essential health service across Australia. This new evidence can inform policy makers to help strengthen current health care models or help deliver alternative care options, providing pathways and solutions that are tailored and targeted to meet the needs and preferences of the underlying populations.

View Causes of premature and potentially avoidable death; identifying hotspots of inequality: Maps

The number of deaths in general and by specific cause are indicators of a population’s health and safety. As a population health measure, areas with consistently higher death rates demonstrate areas of inequality and this phenomenon can be deeply entrenched over time. The availability of a long-term archive of death records and the consistent recording of the residential location within these files has meant that the degree of geographic and temporal variation in the causes of death can now be examined at the small area level across Australia.

View Potentially Preventable Hospitalisations: Whole population Maps

View Potentially Preventable Hospitalisations: Indigenous population Maps

The level of Potentially Preventable Hospitalisations (PPHs) is an accepted measure of health system performance and, despite its limitations, can geographically highlight areas of concern where rates of hospitalisation are high or to investigate why in other instances rates are low.The aim of this study is to identify the geographic and temporal persistence of PPHs across Australia. It follows on from work by Duckett and Griffiths (2016) published as “Perils of Place: identifying hotspots of health inequalities”. This study provides a framework to identify the existence of areas with persistently high PPH rates over time known as “PPH hotspots” and provides core principles to highlight areas where interventions can be targeted. This new analysis, and its presentation in geographical maps, heat map graphs and data sheets, will provide information that is useful to the various levels of the health system, from state and territory health agencies to local and regional health networks and boards, PHNs and primary care practitioners, in working together with an aim to reducing the level of PPHs through improved primary health care outcomes at the local area level.

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