15.8% ▼ -29.4%
Lower than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.4%
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 15.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Cloncurry · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Cloncurry
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Just 7% of residents in Cloncurry provide unpaid care to others, which is well below the national figure. This community shows a general decline in unpaid work and volunteering, although it still maintains a modest level of local service.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 15.8% of people in Cloncurry volunteer, a little above the Queensland and Australian figures. This is a drop from 2011, when 22.4% of the community volunteered.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much lower than most areas, with only 7% of people providing care and 18.2% doing 15 or more hours of housework. This is a sharp fall since 2011, when the housework figure was 30.1%.
7.0% ▼ -48.7%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.0% ▲ +0.7%
Lower than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.8%
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 24.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.2% ▼ -39.5%
Lower than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 30.1%
- 2016: 18.3%
- 2021: 18.2%
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.
Around 3.3% of the population has served in the Defence Force. This is about the same as the rates seen across Queensland and Australia.
3.3%
Lower than 57% 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 Cloncurry [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315022/cloncurry/topic/community