13.9% ▼ -29.8%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.8%
- 2016: 19.3%
- 2021: 13.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mareeba · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Mareeba
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Fewer people are spending their spare time on unpaid work in Mareeba compared to other similar areas. This is most evident in childcare, where the proportion of residents providing unpaid care for children has dropped sharply since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 13.9% of residents volunteer, which is about the same as the Queensland and Australian figures. This is a notable drop from 2011, when 19.8% of the community volunteered.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is far less common here than in the rest of the state, falling to 20.6% from a high of 39.1% in 2011. While unpaid housework remains steady at 20.3%, the number of people providing other types of unpaid care rose to 11.4%.
11.4% ▲ +91.7%
Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 11.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.6% ▼ -47.2%
Lower than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 39.1%
- 2016: 23.2%
- 2021: 20.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.3% ▼ -8.5%
Lower than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.1%
- 2016: 22.6%
- 2021: 20.3%
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 common in Mareeba, with 3.4% of people having served in the Defence Force. This is about the same as the state and national figures.
3.4%
Lower than 55% 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 Mareeba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314016/mareeba/topic/community