19.0% —
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 19.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Yagoonya · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Yagoonya
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Giving back to others is a common part of daily life in Yagoonya, where nearly one in five people volunteer. This is well above the national figure of 14.1%. While unpaid care is high, there is a surprising absence of those doing heavy housework.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 19% of people here are volunteers, which is well above both the Queensland and Australian figures of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care is far more common here than in the rest of the country, with 23.8% of people helping others. While this includes children, 0% of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, a figure far below the national rate of 20.7%.
23.8% —
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 23.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.8% —
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 30.0%
- 2021: 23.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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.
No one in Yagoonya has served in the Defence Force, which is well below the Queensland figure of 3.9%.
0.0%
Lower 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 Yagoonya [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33195/yagoonya/topic/community