Amidst the flurry of relevant regional data in the last week the easiest to miss was this from ABS: Estimates of Personal Income for Small Areas, 2011-2016

It draws off Australian Tax Office data down to the SA2 level. Shane Wright has looked into this data in context of WA: Post-mining boom stats show the wage squeeze is hurting more in WA than anywhere else

Just flagging this for now to come back to but two points which stick out:

1. The divergence between Cairns and Townsville with income earners in Townsville down @ 2-3% in the year to FY2016.
2. Cairns City SA2 is different and it is unlikely this is well represented in either the ABS labour force survey or the census.

Note: This is the number of income earners recorded through the course of the financial year. It doesn’t reflect changes in earnings or employment at any specific time.

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