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Table 2 Descriptive data for all included Local Government Areas (LGAs).

From: The impact of socio-economic disadvantage on rates of hospital separations for diabetes-related foot disease in Victoria, Australia

LGA

IRSD

Total population

Population with diabetes mellitus

% population with diabetes mellitus

Loddon

1

8,095

708

8.5

Central Goldfields

1

12,739

460

3.5

Northern Grampians

1

12,330

683

5.4

Pyrenees

1

6,772

539

8.3

La Trobe

1

72,075

2,275

3.3

Brimbank

1

174,746

8,143

4.6

Maribyrnong

1

66,145

2,267

3.7

Greater Dandenong

1

130,751

5,089

4.0

Mildura

2

51,824

851

1.6

Swan Hill

2

21,285

566

2.6

Hindmarsh

2

6,235

271

4.3

Yarriambiack

2

7,742

376

4.8

Ararat

2

11,653

487

4.3

Glenelg

2

20,525

1,043

5.2

East Gippsland

2

41,361

1,991

4.8

Hume

2

153,729

4,361

2.8

TOTAL

16

798,007

30,110

3.8

Macedon Ranges

9

39,989

1,013

2.4

Queenscliffe

9

3,150

25

0.8

Banyule

9

119,347

3,115

2.7

Melbourne

9

76,678

1,670

2.4

Knox

9

152,388

4,110

2.7

Maroondah

9

102,478

2,966

3.0

Monash

9

169,829

5,825

3.6

Whitehorse

9

151,223

5,049

3.5

Surf Coast

10

22,802

1,414

6.0

Nilumbik

10

62,022

1,168

1.9

Manningham

10

115,702

3,627

3.2

Booroondarra

10

162,285

3,654

2.3

Stonnington

10

95,235

2,004

2.2

Bayside

10

91,726

2,313

2.6

Glen Eira

10

129,576

4,164

3.4

Port Phillip

10

90,458

1,787

2.1

TOTAL

16

1,584,898

43,904

2.8

  1. 2006 census data was used to determine total population per LGA. Total and percentage population with diabetes per LGA was calculated using census population figures and registration numbers from the National Diabetes Services Scheme. Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) rankings were sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (2006).