14.7% ▼ -29.6%
Lower than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.9%
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Ingham · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Ingham
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people have served in the Defence Force in Ingham than in most similar areas. While 4.3% of residents have served, other forms of community involvement have shifted, with volunteering and unpaid childcare both dropping since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.7% of people volunteer, which is lower than in most areas and similar to the national figure. This is a notable drop from 2011, when 20.9% of residents volunteered.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is much lower here than across Australia, at 20.5%. Meanwhile, the share of people providing some form of unpaid care rose to 13.0% since 2011, which is a little above the state average.
13.0% ▲ +17.0%
Lower than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.5% ▼ -12.2%
Lower than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.4%
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 20.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.2% ▼ -17.0%
Lower than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.7%
- 2016: 25.4%
- 2021: 22.2%
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.
A higher share of residents have served in the Defence Force compared to most similar areas. At 4.3%, this figure is a little above the Australian average of 2.8%.
4.3%
Higher than 66% 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 Ingham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315044/ingham/topic/community