The Index of Household Advantage and Disadvantage (IHAD) is an experimental index developed by the ABS to summarise relative socioeconomic advantage and disadvantage for households.

The index is based on census data, and here you can see the percentage of households in each area either in the most disadvantaged group (the lowest quartile of the index), or the percentage of households in the most advantaged group (the highest quartile).

The geographic trends are broadly similar to other measures of advantage and disadvantage, with households worse off in remote and regional areas where a large proportion of the population is Indigenous, such as parts of the Northern Territory, far north Queensland, and Western Australia.

The areas with the highest proportions of more advantaged households are in inner metropolitan areas.