16.0% —
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 16.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Barkly · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Barkly
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Zero people in Barkly provide unpaid care or do significant housework, making it one of the lowest areas for these activities. While community support is low in these areas, a small number of residents still give their time to volunteer.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Around 16.0% of people in Barkly volunteer, which is a little above the 14.1% figure seen across Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very uncommon here, with 0.0% of people providing unpaid care or doing 15 or more hours of housework. This is far below the national figures, and only 20.0% of residents care for children unpaid, which is well below the Australian average of 26.3%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.0% —
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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.
No one in Barkly has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is well below the 3.9% seen in Queensland.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Barkly [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30161/barkly/topic/community