19.5% ▼ -29.6%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.8%
- 2016: 46.2%
- 2021: 19.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bedourie · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bedourie
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement has remained a steady feature of life in Bedourie, where nearly one in five people volunteer. This is a high rate compared to the rest of the country, though very few residents provide unpaid care for children or the elderly.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 19.5% of people in Bedourie volunteer, a figure that is well above the Queensland and national rates of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very uncommon here, with 0.0% of people providing unpaid care and only 9.8% caring for children—both far below the national figures. Similarly, just 8.3% of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, which is far below the 20.7% seen across Australia.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
9.8% ▼ -48.0%
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.8%
- 2016: 24.2%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
8.3% ▼ -12.4%
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 8.3%
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.
Around 3.0% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the rates for Queensland and Australia.
3.0%
Higher than 56% 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 Bedourie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30195/bedourie/topic/community