17.5% ▼ -42.0%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.2%
- 2016: 29.7%
- 2021: 17.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Baralaba · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Baralaba
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Volunteer rates have remained a strong feature of life in Baralaba, with 17.5% of people giving their time. This is well above both the Queensland and national figures of 14.1%. Overall, residents are less likely to be involved in unpaid care roles than people in other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.5% of residents volunteer, which is well above the 14.1% seen across Queensland and Australia. This puts the area around the middle when compared to similar places.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much lower than most areas, with only 7.9% of people providing care and 17.9% caring for children unpaid, both of which are well below the national figures. Meanwhile, 22.5% of people do 15 or more hours of housework, which is a little above the 20.7% typical for Australia.
7.9% ▼ -42.6%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.9% ▼ -15.6%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.2%
- 2016: 17.6%
- 2021: 17.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.5% ▲ +8.5%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.7%
- 2016: 26.5%
- 2021: 22.5%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 2.9% of the population. This is about the same as the Australian figure of 2.8% and a little below the Queensland rate of 3.9%.
2.9%
Higher than 54% 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 Baralaba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30151/baralaba/topic/community