Edgeworth Renewal Corridor Project - Lake Macquarie City Council

5.11 Core Need Assistance6.5% of Corridor CDs residents need assistance with a core activity. This is a similarproportion to the 6.12% Lake Macquarie residents that need assistance, but is 40%higher than the 4.64% of Australian residents that require assistance, as shown in Figure37. Core need assistance refers to those needing help or assistance in one or more ofthe three core activity areas of self-care, mobility, and communication, because of adisability, long term health condition (lasting six months or more) or old age.Figure 37: Core Need Assistance5.12 Core Need AssistanceSource: 2011 ABS CensusTable 10 and Figure 38 show that households in the Corridor CDs own less motorvehicles on average than Lake Macquarie LGA or Australia generally. Notwithstandingthis, motor vehicle ownerships are relatively high in absolute terms. Over 10% ofhouseholds do not own a motor vehicle, and this is more evident in collectors’ districts atthe eastern and western ends of the Corridor (which corresponds to the distribution ofpublic housing). This has important implications for the provision of infrastructure fortransport alternatives to the motor vehicle- such as footpaths, cycleways, and publictransport.Table 10: Household motor vehicle ownershipCorridor CDsLakeMacquarieLGAAustraliaNone 10.6 7.1 8.61 motor vehicle 36.6 35 35.82 motor vehicles 34.6 37.3 36.13 or more vehicles 14.6 17.5 16.5Number of motorvehicles not stated 3.6 3 3Draft Land Use Review – Edgeworth Renewal Corridor – Version 2 Page 53 of 85F2011/00577/06/08 – May 2013