New research shows nearly 2.7 million Australians these days live in a house with a swimming pool, equivalent to 13% of the Australian population and up from 12% the last time Roy Morgan looked at the prevalence of swimming pools around Australia in early 2015.
Twenty percent of regional Queenslanders live in a house with a swimming pool.
Regional Queensland, which includes the Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, and a string of regional cities up the coast such as Bundaberg, Mackay, Townsville and Cairns, leads the nation. Twenty percent of regional Queenslanders live in a house with a swimming pool.
It won’t come as any surprise to know that Australia’s three most northerly State capitals are all far more likely to have houses with swimming pools than their southerly counterparts. Just under a fifth, or 19%, of Perth residents, 18% of Brisbane residents and 15% of Sydney residents now have a swimming pool at home.
Swimming pool ownership is below the national average in other parts of Australia. Only 9% of residents of Melbourne and Adelaide have a swimming pool and in Australia’s most southerly capital city of Hobart only 4% of the locals have a swimming pool – unchanged on four years ago.
With thanks, Roy Morgan
