12.6% ▼ -35.4%
Lower than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.5%
- 2016: 24.3%
- 2021: 12.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Childers · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Childers
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than five per cent of people in Childers have served in the Defence Force, which is much higher than most other similar areas. This community sees lower levels of unpaid care and volunteering compared to the state and national figures. Local volunteering has also declined since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 12.6% of residents volunteer, which is much lower than most areas and a little below the national figure of 14.1%. This is a notable drop from 2011, when 19.5% of the community volunteered.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is far below the national figure at 14.9%, and 19.3% of people do 15 or more hours of housework, which is a little below the 20.7% seen across Australia. Meanwhile, the proportion of people providing unpaid care rose slightly since 2011 to 11.4%.
11.4% ▲ +19.6%
Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 12.7%
- 2021: 11.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
14.9% ▼ -30.4%
Lower than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.4%
- 2016: 22.5%
- 2021: 14.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.3% ▼ -24.1%
Lower than 84% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.4%
- 2016: 24.4%
- 2021: 19.3%
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.
A higher proportion of the population has served in the Defence Force here, at 5.1%. This is a little above the Queensland figure of 3.9% and the national figure of 2.8%.
5.1%
Higher than 79% 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 Childers [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315019/childers/topic/community