19.1% ▼ -32.3%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.2%
- 2016: 34.6%
- 2021: 19.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Karara · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Karara
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly one in five people in Karara volunteer their time, making the area much more active in community work than the rest of the state. While many residents contribute to local causes, far fewer are providing unpaid care for children compared to the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 19.1% of people giving their time. This is well above the 14.1% recorded for both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Only 9.6% of people provide unpaid childcare, which is far below the national figure of 26.3%. However, 27.0% do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly, a rate well above the 20.7% seen across Australia. Unpaid care for others is much lower than most areas at 7.0%.
7.0% ▼ -34.4%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 16.3%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
9.6% ▼ -65.7%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.9%
- 2016: 21.2%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.0% ▼ -18.8%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.2%
- 2016: 30.8%
- 2021: 27.0%
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 typical for the region, with 2.7% of the population having served. This is about the same as the Australian figure of 2.8%.
2.7%
Higher than 51% 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 Karara [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31487/karara/topic/community