16.8% ▲ +19.3%
Lower than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.0%
- 2016: 29.9%
- 2021: 16.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Yarraman · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Yarraman
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A shrinking number of parents provide unpaid childcare in Yarraman, though other forms of community help have grown. Only 15.5% of residents now care for children unpaid, a sharp drop from 2011. At the same time, volunteering and general unpaid care have both increased over the last decade.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.8% of people in Yarraman volunteer, which is a little above the Queensland and Australian figures of 14.1%. This rate has risen by 2.7 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While far fewer people care for children unpaid compared to the rest of the state, 16.0% of residents provide other forms of unpaid care, a figure well above the national average. This sits alongside 24.4% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly.
16.0% ▲ +18.0%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.5%
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 16.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
15.5% ▼ -46.0%
Lower than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.6%
- 2016: 23.5%
- 2021: 15.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.4% ▼ -2.5%
Higher than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.1%
- 2016: 16.4%
- 2021: 24.4%
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 much more common here than in most similar areas. About 5.6% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is a little above the 3.9% seen across Queensland.
5.6%
Higher than 85% 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 Yarraman [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321114/yarraman/topic/community