18.4% ▼ -33.6%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.8%
- 2016: 26.4%
- 2021: 18.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Araluen · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Araluen
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people in Araluen contribute their time to others compared to the state and national figures. While about 14% of Australians volunteer, 18.4% of people here do the same, showing a strong local commitment to community work.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 18.4% of residents are volunteers, which is well above the 14.1% figure seen across both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 16.6% of people providing care and 27.4% doing 15 or more hours of housework, both of which are well above national figures. However, the proportion of people caring for children unpaid is 22.5%, which is well below the Australian average of 26.3%.
16.6% ▲ +6.2%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.7%
- 2016: 16.1%
- 2021: 16.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.5% ▼ -27.3%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.0%
- 2016: 24.0%
- 2021: 22.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.4% ▼ -22.8%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.5%
- 2016: 28.7%
- 2021: 27.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did 15 hours or more of unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census.
Defence service
People who served in the Australian Defence Force.
Defence service is much more common here than in most other areas, with 4.8% of people having served, a figure a little above the Australian average of 2.8%.
4.8%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who have ever served in the Australian Defence Force (currently or previously).
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Community Participation in Araluen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30071/araluen/topic/community