Southern Downs Regional Council
Local workers - Individual income quartiles - All industries
Individual Income is an indicator of socio-economic status, skills and occupations required in a particular industry. With other data sources, such as Qualifications and Occupation, it helps to evaluate the economic opportunities of people in an industry.
Income quartiles are used to condense income categories into manageable units, adjust for the effects of inflation, and allow areas to be compared over time relative to a benchmark. The incomes for a specified industry for the state are split into four equal groups, each containing 25% of the workers in that industry, and the quartiles allow users to compare changes in that industry in the local area to changes statewide, or against another benchmark. For more information on how quartiles are calculated please refer to the data notes.
As well as being related to the type of jobs and qualifications required in a particular industry, income levels can be related to the level of part-time employment, Occupations, Qualifications and the Age structure of the local workers, so the data should be looked at in conjunction with these topics.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2016 & 2021 – by place of work
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| Local workers individual income quartiles | |||||||||
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| Southern Downs Regional Council - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Quartile group | Number | % | Queensland | Number | % | Queensland | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Lowest group | 5,003 | 36.3 | 25.0 | 4,540 | 34.9 | 25.0 | +464 | ||
| Medium lowest | 4,202 | 30.5 | 25.0 | 4,129 | 31.7 | 25.0 | +73 | ||
| Medium highest | 2,867 | 20.8 | 25.0 | 2,745 | 21.1 | 25.0 | +122 | ||
| Highest group | 1,719 | 12.5 | 25.0 | 1,612 | 12.4 | 25.0 | +108 | ||
| Total Persons | 13,792 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 13,025 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +767 | ||
Source: Derived from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2016 and 2021. Compiled and presented .id (informed decisions). Please refer to specific data notes for more information | |||||||||
| Quartile group dollar ranges (Individuals) | |||||||||
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| Calculated from income data for Queensland | Weekly income by Census year | ||||||||
| Individual quartile ranges | 2021 | 2016 | |||||||
| Lowest group | $0 to $619 | $0 to $551 | |||||||
| Medium lowest | $620 to $977 | $552 to $882 | |||||||
| Medium highest | $978 to $1,508 | $883 to $1,352 | |||||||
| Highest group | $1,509 and over | $1,353 and over | |||||||
Dominant groups
Income quartiles allow us to compare relative income-earning capabilities across time. Analysis of the distribution of the workers by income quartile compared to Queensland shows that there was lesser proportion of in the highest income quartile, and a greater proportion in the lowest income quartile.
Emerging groups
The most significant change for the local workers between 2016and 2021 was in the "lowest group" quartile which showed an increase of 464 people.