17.8% ▼ -42.3%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.9%
- 2016: 30.5%
- 2021: 17.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Binjour · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Binjour
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people in Binjour volunteer than in the rest of the state, with 17.8% of residents giving their time. This community shows a strong commitment to helping others, though it has a much lower rate of Defence Force service than the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Around 17.8% of people here volunteer, which is well above the 14.1% seen across both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Residents are much more likely to handle heavy workloads at home, with 30.1% doing 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly. This is well above the national figure of 20.7%, while the rate of people providing unpaid care is also higher than most areas at 15.1%. Interestingly, the proportion of people caring for children unpaid is well below the state average at 17.8%.
15.1% ▼ -5.5%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.0%
- 2016: 29.3%
- 2021: 15.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.8% ▼ -38.2%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.8%
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 17.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.1% ▼ -11.0%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.9%
- 2016: 28.0%
- 2021: 30.1%
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 the area has served in the Defence Force, which is well below the Queensland rate of 3.9%.
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 Binjour [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30257/binjour/topic/community