Demographic Characteristics and Housing in Logan City

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Q. 1 Describe the main demographic characteristics of your local government area in terms of the following:
Population density and distribution
Logan city has been considered to be as a local government area which has been situated within the South of
Brisbane metropolitan area within South East Queensland, Australia. the population density of the Logan city is
estimated to be 326,615 with the density of approximately 340.93/Km2 as per the 2018 report. This in turn
shows the distribution of the people across the area.
Socio-economic breakdown (levels of income)
Within the Logan city, approximately 17.1% of the household has significantly earned income of around $2500
or more every week as per the 2016 report. The cost of renting and also owning a house is quite affordable
when compared with the Gold Coast and Brisbane (Kraatz and et.al., 2015). Developing an affordable living
strategy and affordable housing within Logan city for households who tends to have moderate and lower
income levels.
Principal industries/ employment opportunities.
Logan city tends to generate approximately $8.742 billion in Gross Regional Product every year and it also
have estimated 21,000 companies and industries. However, the key industries within the economy of the city
mainly includes retail, manufacturing, wholesale trade, social assistance, health care, transportation, postal
services, warehousing, etc. Logan city tends to have young work force where business within the Logan city
tends to generate approximately 72000 plus jobs. Education plays one of the key significant role in lowering
the unemployment rates within the Logan city.
Q.2 Assess how these demographic characteristics may affect housing availability and housing
affordability for disadvantaged groups in your local government area.
Logan is considered to be a growing city with the estimated growth of more than 1, 75,000 people over a
period of next 20 years. This in turn states that, increase in the population in turn tends to state that, there will
be rising needs of housing and renting of properties with the increase in population. There are also large
number of households who tends to experience stress related with housing because of low degree of income
levels (Watt, and Smets, 2017). The income based rent is one of the key issue which tends to result in low rent
on the larger properties. The community housing component provides apartment and complexes to the lower
income people. Lower level of employment opportunities to the people in turn tends to eventually result in
reduced level of renting or purchasing of the housing properties. This eventually affects the livelihood of the
person within the Logan city.