12.4% ▼ -33.8%
Lower than 89% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 18.8%
- 2016: 18.6%
- 2021: 12.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Airlie Beach - Cannonvale · Urban Area
Community Participation in Airlie Beach - Cannonvale
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Fewer people have stepped up to volunteer or provide unpaid care in Airlie Beach - Cannonvale since 2011. Only 12.4% of residents now volunteer, which is much lower than in most similar areas. This trend of declining community participation is seen across several different types of unpaid work.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering has fallen 6.3 percentage points since 2011 to 12.4%. This is a little below the figures for both Queensland and Australia, which both sit at 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much less common here than in the state and nation. The number of people caring for children unpaid fell 8.0 percentage points since 2011 to 21.1%, while those providing other unpaid care dropped to 6.4%, which is well below the national figure of 11.9%.
6.4% ▼ -37.1%
Lower than 99% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 6.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.1% ▼ -27.5%
Lower than 92% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 29.1%
- 2016: 29.1%
- 2021: 21.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
15.4% ▼ -27.5%
Lower than 99% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 21.3%
- 2016: 19.9%
- 2021: 15.4%
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.
About 2.9% of residents have served in the Defence Force. This is lower than in most areas, though it is about the same as the Australian figure of 2.8%.
2.9%
Lower than 63% of urban area 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 Airlie Beach - Cannonvale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3001/airlie-beach-cannonvale/topic/community