22.6% ▼ -69.0%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 72.8%
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 22.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Poruma Island · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Poruma Island
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
High levels of local involvement define Poruma Island, which sees far more residents contributing to their community than most other areas. Half of all residents provide unpaid childcare, and volunteering is much more common here than across the rest of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 22.6% of people volunteer their time, a figure that is well above the 14.1% seen across both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common, with 53.2% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, far above the national figure of 20.7%. Half of the population provides unpaid childcare, and 14.5% provide other types of unpaid care, both of which are higher than most areas.
14.5% ▼ -26.0%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.6%
- 2016: 17.5%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
50.0% → 0.0%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 50.0%
- 2016: 38.3%
- 2021: 50.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
53.2% ▲ +27.5%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.7%
- 2016: 14.2%
- 2021: 53.2%
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.
A striking 11.5% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is well above the 3.9% in Queensland and 2.8% nationally.
11.5%
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 Poruma Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32355/poruma-island/topic/community