6.4% —
Lower than 96% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 6.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Yarrabah · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Yarrabah
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Unpaid caregiving has grown significantly in Yarrabah since 2016. Nearly half of the community now looks after children without pay, while formal volunteering has dropped to just 6.4%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 6.4% of people here volunteer, which is well below the 14.1% figure for Queensland and Australia. This rate has fallen by 3.9 percentage points since 2016.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
About 47.8% of people provide unpaid childcare, a figure far above the national average of 26.3%. This trend is consistent with a rise in general unpaid care, which now involves 18.3% of residents, though only 9.5% spend 15 or more hours a week on housework.
18.3% —
Higher than 95% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 9.0%
- 2021: 18.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
47.8% —
Higher than 96% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 38.2%
- 2021: 47.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
9.5% —
Lower than 97% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 19.9%
- 2021: 9.5%
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 2.7% of the population has served in the Defence Force. This is a little below the Queensland figure of 3.9%, but about the same as the Australian average of 2.8%.
2.7%
Lower than 72% 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 Yarrabah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315108/yarrabah/topic/community