12.3% ▼ -23.8%
Lower than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.2%
- 2016: 25.7%
- 2021: 12.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Sarina · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Sarina
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Fewer people in Sarina are involved in unpaid community activities compared to other similar areas. Only 12.3% of residents volunteer their time, a figure that has dropped from 16.2% since 2011. This reflects a broader trend of declining unpaid community work across the town.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering rates in Sarina are much lower than in most other areas, sitting at 12.3% which is a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
About 26% of people provide unpaid childcare, which is about the same as the Queensland average. However, those providing other forms of unpaid care have fallen to 10.4%, and those doing 15 or more hours of housework dropped 8.5 points since 2011.
10.4% ▼ -31.3%
Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.1%
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 10.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.0% ▲ +28.1%
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.3%
- 2016: 26.0%
- 2021: 26.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.0% ▼ -29.8%
Lower than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.5%
- 2016: 19.7%
- 2021: 20.0%
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 Force veterans make up 3.2% of the population, a rate that is lower than most areas but about the same as the Australian average of 2.8%.
3.2%
Lower than 60% 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 Sarina [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315088/sarina/topic/community