20.8% ▼ -13.9%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.1%
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 20.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Yeerongpilly · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Yeerongpilly
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people volunteer here than in most similar areas, making Yeerongpilly a place with a strong record of community give-back. About 20.8% of residents give their time to others, a figure well above both the Queensland and national averages.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 20.8% of people helping out, which is 6.6 percentage points higher than the national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Around 25.7% of residents provide unpaid child care, which is about the same as the national rate. However, those doing 15 or more hours of unpaid housework are much fewer than in most areas, at 19.3%.
11.6% ▲ +27.9%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.1%
- 2016: 11.0%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.7% ▼ -4.0%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.8%
- 2016: 25.3%
- 2021: 25.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.3% ▲ +3.5%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.6%
- 2016: 16.1%
- 2021: 19.3%
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.
About 2.2% of the community have served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the Queensland figure of 3.9%.
2.2%
Lower than 57% 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 Yeerongpilly [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33215/yeerongpilly/topic/community