21.4% ▼ -18.9%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.4%
- 2016: 26.4%
- 2021: 21.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Imbil · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Imbil
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much higher rates of volunteering and military service mark Imbil as an active community compared to most similar areas. About 21.4% of residents volunteer their time, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. This spirit of service extends to the military, where the local share of veterans is much higher than in most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 21.4% of people helping out, a figure well above both the Queensland and Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 25.8% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework—well above the national figure of 20.7%—those caring for children unpaid are well below the national average at 21.3%. General unpaid care is 11.7%, which is about the same as the state and national figures.
11.7% ▼ -7.2%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.6%
- 2016: 14.5%
- 2021: 11.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.3% ▼ -17.1%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.7%
- 2016: 23.7%
- 2021: 21.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.8% ▼ -21.0%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.7%
- 2016: 27.6%
- 2021: 25.8%
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.
A little above the national average of 2.8%, 5.4% of residents in Imbil have served in the Defence Force, a rate much higher than most similar areas.
5.4%
Higher than 84% 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 Imbil [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31387/imbil/topic/community