Housing stock across the Central Queensland region has decreased 28.5 per cent in the past decade when compared to the previous decade.
Data from the Queensland Government's statistician's office, which the LNP is using to argue the state is in a housing affordability crisis, shows Rockhampton is down 15.4 per cent from 3638 housing lot registrations between 2001 and 2010 to 3079 in 2011 and 2020.
Livingstone has dropped 50.2 per cent from 3755 housing lot registrations to 1870 over the same period while Gladstone has dipped 23.2 per cent from 5370 to 4125.
In smaller CQ towns, Banana has dropped a staggering 83.0 per cent from 601 to 102, Central Highlands has fallen 22.5 per cent from 1763 to 1366 while Woorabinda has remained stable, due to no data being provided in 2001-2010.