11.8% ▼ -23.8%
Lower than 83% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.5%
- 2016: 16.9%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Laidley · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Laidley
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much higher rates of unpaid care and defence service set Laidley apart from most similar areas. While 14.8% of people provide unpaid care, volunteering has dropped to 11.8%, which is lower than the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering in Laidley has fallen by 3.7 percentage points since 2011. At 11.8%, this is now much lower than most other areas and sits a little below the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
The share of people providing unpaid care is well above the state average at 14.8%, a figure that rose 4.9 percentage points since 2011. In contrast, those caring for children unpaid fell sharply since 2011 to 21.2%, which is well below the national figure.
14.8% ▲ +50.0%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 11.4%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.2% ▼ -35.1%
Lower than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 32.7%
- 2016: 27.4%
- 2021: 21.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.4% ▼ -17.9%
Lower than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.2%
- 2016: 25.2%
- 2021: 22.4%
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 very common here, with 5.9% of people having served. This is much higher than most similar areas and well above the Australian average of 2.8%.
5.9%
Higher than 87% 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 Laidley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315050/laidley/topic/community