16.0% —
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 16.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Yimbun · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Yimbun
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly one third of people in Yimbun provide unpaid childcare, marking it as a place with high levels of family care. While many residents support their families and the community, very few have served in the armed forces.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16% of people here volunteer, which is a little above the Queensland and Australian figures of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care is common here, with 20% of residents doing so—a figure well above the national average of 11.9%. This is consistent with the 32% of people who care for children unpaid, which is well above the Australian figure of 26.3%. Meanwhile, 20% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, which is about the same as the rest of the country.
20.0% —
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
32.0% —
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 39.1%
- 2021: 32.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.0% —
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 20.0%
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 Yimbun has served in the Defence Force, which is well below the Queensland average 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 Yimbun [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33222/yimbun/topic/community