6.3% ▼ -72.0%
Lower than 96% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.7%
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 6.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Aurukun · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Aurukun
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A huge gap exists between Aurukun and the rest of the country in how people spend their spare time. While far more people here provide unpaid care for children than the national average, very few residents now spend their time volunteering.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 6.3% of people in Aurukun volunteer, which is well below the Queensland and national figures of 14.1%. This represents a sharp drop from 2011, when 22.7% of the community volunteered.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is very common here at 42.5%, which is far above the national figure of 26.3%. While 14.4% of people provide general unpaid care, only 2.6% spend 15 or more hours a week on housework, a figure far below the rest of Australia.
14.4% ▲ +29.6%
Higher than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 14.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
42.5% ▲ +76.4%
Higher than 92% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 24.1%
- 2016: 34.2%
- 2021: 42.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
2.6% ▼ -90.7%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.3%
- 2016: 18.0%
- 2021: 2.6%
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.
Very few people in Aurukun have served in the Defence Force. At 2.0%, this is much lower than most other similar areas and a little below the Queensland average of 3.9%.
2.0%
Lower than 86% 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 Aurukun [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315004/aurukun/topic/community