20.5% —
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 36.5%
- 2021: 20.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Manyung · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Manyung
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
One in five people in Manyung volunteer, which is well above the national figure. This high level of community involvement defines the area, where residents are much more likely to give their time to others than people in most other parts of Australia.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 20.5% of people here volunteer, a figure that is well above the Queensland and national rates of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 34.2% of residents spend 15 or more hours a week on unpaid housework—far above the national figure of 20.7%—very few people here provide unpaid childcare. Only 8.2% care for children, which is far below the Australian average of 26.3%.
11.0% —
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.4%
- 2021: 11.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
8.2% —
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.4%
- 2021: 8.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
34.2% —
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 38.5%
- 2021: 34.2%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 4.3% of the population, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
4.3%
Higher than 75% 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 Manyung [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31756/manyung/topic/community