16.8% ▼ -15.9%
Lower than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.0%
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 16.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Chinchilla · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Chinchilla
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Around the middle of similar areas for community involvement, Chinchilla shows a steady but slightly declining trend in volunteering. While 16.8% of people volunteer, this is a little above the national figure of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.8% of residents volunteer, which is a little above the Queensland and Australian figures of 14.1%. This is a drop from 2011, when 20% of the community volunteered.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is about the same as the national figure at 25.8%. However, the 9.6% of people providing general unpaid care and the 20.1% doing 15 or more hours of housework are both much lower than most areas.
9.6% ▼ -6.5%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.8% ▲ +0.4%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.7%
- 2016: 24.3%
- 2021: 25.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.1% ▼ -10.8%
Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.5%
- 2016: 22.3%
- 2021: 20.1%
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 common here, with 3.3% of people having served. This is about the same as both the Queensland figure of 3.9% and the national figure of 2.8%.
3.3%
Lower than 58% 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 Chinchilla [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314008/chinchilla/topic/community