14.2% ▼ -21.2%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.0%
- 2016: 18.4%
- 2021: 14.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Yeppoon · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Yeppoon
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Fewer people engage in unpaid care and volunteering in Yeppoon compared to most similar areas. While the town has a higher proportion of Defence Force veterans than the national average, other forms of community support are lower than typical for its size.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.2% of residents volunteer, a figure that is lower than most other areas but about the same as the Queensland and national rates.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is less common here than in most areas, with the 22.4% of people caring for children being well below the national figure of 26.3%. Those doing 15 or more hours of housework are also much lower than in most other areas.
11.8% ▲ +22.6%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.7%
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.4% ▼ -3.3%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.1%
- 2016: 23.0%
- 2021: 22.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.9% ▼ -6.7%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.4%
- 2016: 21.7%
- 2021: 19.9%
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.
Yeppoon has a higher rate of Defence Force veterans than most areas, with 3.9% of residents having served, which is a little above the Australian average of 2.8%.
3.9%
Higher than 70% 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 Yeppoon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33219/yeppoon/topic/community