8.3% ▼ -37.1%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 12.9%
- 2021: 8.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Innisfail · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Innisfail
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Fewer people in Innisfail engage in unpaid care or volunteer work compared to most similar areas. Only 8.3% of residents volunteer, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%. This trend of lower community participation extends across childcare and housework too.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates in Innisfail are among the lowest for similar areas, at just 8.3%. This is well below both the Queensland and Australian figures of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much lower than most areas, with only 14.5% of people caring for children and 8.4% providing general unpaid care. Similarly, the 14.9% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework is well below the national figure of 20.7%.
8.4% ▼ -8.9%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 8.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
14.5% ▼ -18.9%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.9%
- 2016: 19.0%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
14.9% ▼ -13.8%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.2%
- 2016: 16.1%
- 2021: 14.9%
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.
A higher share of the population has served in the Defence Force than in most areas, with 3.7% of residents having served. This is about the same as the Queensland rate of 3.9%.
3.7%
Higher than 67% 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 Innisfail [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31398/innisfail/topic/community