26.1% ▼ -16.5%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.3%
- 2016: 27.3%
- 2021: 26.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Junabee · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Junabee
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a quarter of people in Junabee volunteer their time, making it a place where community contribution is a huge part of daily life. This high level of engagement is seen across both formal volunteering and a strong tendency to provide unpaid care for family members.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is far more common here than elsewhere, with 26.1% of residents helping out, which is 12 percentage points higher than the Queensland and Australian figures.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is much more frequent than in most areas. This includes 33.5% of people caring for children, 30.4% doing 15 or more hours of housework a week, and 16.8% providing general unpaid care—all figures well above the state and national averages.
16.8% ▲ +43.0%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 12.2%
- 2021: 16.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
33.5% ▼ -4.6%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.2%
- 2016: 24.4%
- 2021: 33.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.4% ▼ -10.2%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.9%
- 2016: 36.0%
- 2021: 30.4%
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.
About 3.2% of the population has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is about the same as the state and national averages.
3.2%
Higher than 59% 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 Junabee [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31461/junabee/topic/community