City of Salisbury

Analyzing the individual reports and the reports for the past 4 financial years, we could say that Recreation is the most searched Primary Category for the Salisbury Council with last year it being about 30% of the total searches. Recreation was followed by Education around 12% and Personal and Family Support being around 10%.

The overall Sessions and New Users have now returned to the pre covid level. During the overall Covid Era there was a decrease of 10.34% in Sessions and 13.6% in the New Users for the year 2020-2021 and the decrease for the following year was 17.24% and 18.18% as compared to the pre covid year of 2019-2020.

Paddy’s Market and Northern Community Mental Health Centre being the two most searched community organization in the Salisbury Council. For the financial year 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 Paddy’s Market being the leader and for the last two financial year Northern Community Mental Health Centre was the leader. For the last financial year, Paddy’s Market had 1724 sessions and out of them 1471 of them were new users, whereas for Northern Community Mental Health Centre, had about 2125 total Sessions but nearly the same new users about 1555.

Justice of Peace – Salisbury had a sudden rise in the Sessions and New Users, with both being doubled from the financial year 2021-2022 to 2022-2023. With this sudden rise in Justice of Peace – Salisbury, the primary category ‘Government’ also shows a sudden increase.

Another anomaly was Bowden Brompton Community School –Little Para Campus, with its sessions and new users increasing from 89 Sessions and 74 New Users for the year 2021-2022 to 250 Sessions and 165 New Users for the year 2022-2023. This resulted in the rise of 28.94 % for the ‘Education’ primary Category over the last two financial years. This increase was because of the redevelopment project that the school is undergoing and that the assistant principal report for the term 1 2023, he acknowledged the fact that the enrollment for the year 2023 has had a significant increase and that the classrooms are operating at full capacity.

Rural Organization & Development and Public Safety being the primary categories with the least Sessions over the years.