16.0% ▼ -24.8%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.2%
- 2016: 24.4%
- 2021: 16.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Glen Innes · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Glen Innes
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Glen Innes sits around the middle of similar areas for most forms of community involvement. While 16% of people volunteer, this is a drop from previous years. The town shows a mix of typical levels of unpaid care and a slightly higher than average number of former defence force members.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16% of people in Glen Innes volunteer, which is a little above the national figure of 14.1%. This is a notable decline from 2011, when 21.2% of the community volunteered.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care for children is much lower than most areas at 18.9%, a sharp fall from 37.2% in 2011. Meanwhile, 23.9% of people do at least 15 hours of unpaid housework, which is well above the Australian figure of 20.7%.
13.0% ▲ +12.2%
Lower than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
18.9% ▼ -49.3%
Lower than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 37.2%
- 2016: 24.8%
- 2021: 18.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.9% ▼ -6.2%
Lower than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.5%
- 2016: 22.6%
- 2021: 23.9%
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.
Defence service is a little more common here than in the rest of the state, with 3.8% of residents having served in the Defence Force.
3.8%
Higher than 57% of urban centre 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 Glen Innes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114011/glen-innes/topic/community