12.5% ▼ -29.9%
Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.8%
- 2016: 16.4%
- 2021: 12.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Hervey Bay · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Hervey Bay
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Hervey Bay involves a significant number of people supporting others through unpaid work and military service. While 14.2% of people provide unpaid care—a rate higher than most areas—the proportion of local volunteers has dropped since 2011. This mix shows a community heavily focused on family and personal support roles.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering has fallen by 5.3 percentage points since 2011 to 12.5%. This is much lower than most similar areas and sits a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
More people here provide unpaid care than in most areas, with 14.2% doing so. This contrasts with a lower-than-usual 20.2% of people caring for children unpaid, which is well below the Australian average of 26.3%.
14.2% ▲ +40.8%
Higher than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.1%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 14.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.2% ▼ -29.0%
Lower than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.4%
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 20.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.3% ▲ +2.4%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.8%
- 2016: 25.1%
- 2021: 23.3%
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 much more common here than in most other areas. About 5.5% of people have served, which is a little above the 3.9% seen across Queensland.
5.5%
Higher than 84% 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 Hervey Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL311002/hervey-bay/topic/community