6.8% —
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 6.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Jimna · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Jimna
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Forty per cent of people in Jimna do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework a week, a figure far above the national average. While formal volunteering is low, there is a strong presence of people providing unpaid care and former service members.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 6.8% of people here volunteer, which is well below the 14.1% seen across Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common in Jimna, with 16.9% of people providing it, well above the national figure of 11.9%. About 27.1% care for children unpaid, which is around the middle for similar areas.
16.9% —
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 16.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.1% —
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 28.6%
- 2021: 27.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
40.7% —
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 24.3%
- 2021: 40.7%
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 high proportion of the population has served in the Defence Force, at 12.3%, which is well above the Australian figure of 2.8%.
12.3%
Higher 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 Jimna [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31443/jimna/topic/community