The Northern Rivers is a diverse region, home to over 300,000 people. There’s a lot to love, but we’ve been with faced many challenges too. This Vital Signs report is a snapshot of community vitality and resilience.

The report is a community check-up tool used by community foundations around the world to measure the vitality of a community and support action towards improving collective quality of life. It uses publicly available data and identifies significant trends in a range of areas critical to quality of life for community.

Vital Signs Northern Rivers NSW 2022 highlights the strengths, challenges and needs across the seven Local Government Areas in the following key areas:

Housing & Homelessness

Education & Employment

Healthy & Resilient communities

Environment & Sustainability

These reports are designed to be conversations starters, to allow local communities to investigate deeper matters of significance to them.


Supporting Partner


 

Vasudhara