12.8% ▼ -26.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.3%
- 2016: 17.2%
- 2021: 12.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Yorkeys Knob · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Yorkeys Knob
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A much higher rate of former Defence Force members than most areas defines Yorkeys Knob, where 4.7% of people have served. While military service is common, other forms of community contribution like volunteering and unpaid care are less frequent than in the typical Australian town.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 12.8% of people in Yorkeys Knob volunteer, which is much lower than most areas and a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is less common here than in other areas. Only 20.6% of people care for children unpaid, which is well below the Queensland figure of 26.5%, and just 10% provide any form of unpaid care.
10.0% ▲ +12.6%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.6% ▼ -14.0%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.9%
- 2016: 20.8%
- 2021: 20.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
17.9% ▼ -10.6%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.0%
- 2016: 17.9%
- 2021: 17.9%
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.
People who have served in the Defence Force make up 4.7% of the population. This is much higher than most similar areas and a little above the Australian average of 2.8%.
4.7%
Higher than 78% 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 Yorkeys Knob [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33223/yorkeys-knob/topic/community