15.4% ▼ -11.0%
Higher than 52% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 17.3%
- 2016: 16.4%
- 2021: 15.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Gympie · Urban Area
Community Participation in Gympie
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A much higher proportion of people provide unpaid care in Gympie compared to the rest of the country. While about 14.7% of residents offer unpaid care, others contribute through volunteering and military service to support the wider community.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 15.4% of residents are volunteers, which is a little above the Queensland and national figures. This is a slight drop from 2011, when 17.3% of people volunteered.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care is common here, with 14.7% of people doing so, a figure well above the state average. This sits alongside a high rate of people doing 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, though that number fell from 27.3% in 2011.
14.7% ▲ +15.3%
Higher than 98% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.0% ▲ +3.2%
Lower than 61% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 24.2%
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 25.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.4% ▼ -14.4%
Higher than 77% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 27.3%
- 2016: 25.1%
- 2021: 23.4%
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.
Military service is much more common in Gympie than in most other similar areas. Around 3.9% of people have served in the Defence Force, which is a little above the national figure of 2.8%.
3.9%
Higher than 75% 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 Gympie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3008/gympie/topic/community