14.2% ▼ -30.4%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.4%
- 2016: 19.2%
- 2021: 14.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Gympie · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Gympie
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement in Gympie has remained steady over the last decade, with volunteering levels now sitting at 14.2%. This reflects a typical pattern for the region, though a higher-than-usual proportion of residents provide unpaid care for others.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.2% of people in Gympie volunteer, which is about the same as the figures for Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
A higher than usual 14.1% of residents provide unpaid care, which is a little above the national figure of 11.9%. This happens alongside 21.9% of people doing 15 or more hours of unpaid housework and 24.7% caring for children unpaid.
14.1% ▲ +23.5%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.7% ▼ -6.2%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.3%
- 2016: 25.4%
- 2021: 24.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.9% ▼ -15.1%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.9%
- 2016: 24.3%
- 2021: 21.9%
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.
Defence service is more common here than in most similar areas, with 3.9% of people having served, which is a little above the Australian average of 2.8%.
3.9%
Higher than 71% 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 Gympie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31280/gympie/topic/community