11.4% ▼ -31.6%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.7%
- 2016: 16.5%
- 2021: 11.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Elimbah · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Elimbah
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much higher rates of Defence Force service mark Elimbah, where 4.4% of residents have served. While few people volunteer for organisations, there is a strong local presence of people providing unpaid care for children and others in the home.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 11.4% of people in Elimbah volunteer, which is much lower than most areas and a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common here, with 30.1% of people caring for children—well above the 26.3% national average. This goes alongside higher than usual rates of people providing other unpaid care and those doing 15 or more hours of housework each week.
13.9% ▲ +19.3%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 13.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.1% ▼ -10.2%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.5%
- 2016: 33.4%
- 2021: 30.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.0% ▼ -7.6%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.1%
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 25.0%
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.
Service in the Defence Force is much more common here than in most areas, with 4.4% of the population having served, which is a little above the Australian figure of 2.8%.
4.4%
Higher than 75% 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).
More for Elimbah
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Community Participation in Elimbah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30961/elimbah/topic/community