16.0% ▼ -32.9%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.9%
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 16.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Yelarbon · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Yelarbon
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong sense of service defines Yelarbon, where 4.4% of people have served in the Defence Force. While volunteering is a bit more common here than the national figure, fewer people are providing unpaid childcare compared to other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16% of residents volunteer their time, which is a little above the 14.1% seen across Queensland and Australia, though this is lower than in most similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While those caring for children unpaid are well below the Queensland figure at 23.4%, a much higher 25.4% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework. General unpaid care is provided by 12.1% of residents, which is about the same as the national figure.
12.1% ▲ +16.5%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 15.2%
- 2021: 12.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.4% ▼ -32.5%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.7%
- 2016: 28.0%
- 2021: 23.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.4% ▼ -13.7%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.4%
- 2016: 31.6%
- 2021: 25.4%
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.
Defence service is much more common here than in most similar areas, with 4.4% of people having served, which is a little above the Australian average of 2.8%.
4.4%
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 Yelarbon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33216/yelarbon/topic/community