6.6% ▼ -65.7%
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.2%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Pormpuraaw · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Pormpuraaw
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Pormpuraaw is defined by a huge amount of unpaid work and family support. While few people take on formal volunteer roles, there is a very high rate of people looking after children and their homes.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 6.6% of residents volunteer, which is well below the national figure of 14.1% and among the lowest rates for similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common here, with 46.3% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly—far above the national figure of 20.7%. This high level of domestic work is consistent with the 38% of people caring for children unpaid, which is far above the Australian average.
20.6% ▲ +13.5%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.1%
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 20.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
38.0% ▼ -15.8%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 45.2%
- 2016: 32.9%
- 2021: 38.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
46.3% ▲ +82.5%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.4%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 46.3%
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 larger share of the community has served in the Defence Force compared to other areas, with 6.2% of people having served, which is well above the national figure of 2.8%.
6.2%
Higher than 87% 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 Pormpuraaw [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32349/pormpuraaw/topic/community