12.2% ▼ -25.4%
Lower than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.3%
- 2016: 24.9%
- 2021: 12.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Innisfail · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Innisfail
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Fewer people in Innisfail engage in unpaid care and volunteering compared to most similar areas. Only 12.2% of residents volunteer, a figure that has fallen since 2011. The town also sees lower rates of unpaid childcare and housework than the state and national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering rates in Innisfail are much lower than most similar areas. At 12.2%, this is a little below the Queensland and Australian figures and represents a 4.1 percentage point drop since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is well below the national figure at 20.8%, and only 18.7% of people do 15 or more hours of housework. While these rates have fallen since 2011, the 11.6% of people providing general unpaid care is about the same as the state and national averages.
11.6% ▲ +8.5%
Lower than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.7%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.8% ▼ -12.4%
Lower than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.7%
- 2016: 34.2%
- 2021: 20.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.7% ▼ -20.9%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.6%
- 2016: 28.3%
- 2021: 18.7%
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 3.5% of the population has served in the Defence Force. This is around the middle for similar areas and is about the same as the figures for Queensland and Australia.
3.5%
Lower than 52% 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 Innisfail [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314013/innisfail/topic/community