20.3% ▼ -24.7%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.0%
- 2016: 17.3%
- 2021: 20.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Barrine · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Barrine
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people volunteer here than in most similar areas, making Barrine a place where community contribution is common. About 20.3% of residents give their time to others, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is a strong feature of the area, with 20.3% of people helping out, a rate well above both the Queensland and Australian figures of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While only 22.3% of people provide unpaid childcare—well below the national average of 26.3%—a huge 34% do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, which is far above the Australian figure of 20.7%. Around 12.1% provide other unpaid care, which is about the same as the national rate.
12.1% ▼ -13.2%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.9%
- 2016: 7.9%
- 2021: 12.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.3% ▼ -8.4%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.3%
- 2016: 18.7%
- 2021: 22.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
34.0% ▼ -13.5%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.3%
- 2016: 30.8%
- 2021: 34.0%
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.
People who have served in the Defence Force make up 1.6% of the population, which is a little below the 2.8% seen across Australia.
1.6%
Lower than 63% 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 Barrine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30173/barrine/topic/community