23.9% ▼ -22.4%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 30.8%
- 2016: 28.4%
- 2021: 23.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Aramac · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Aramac
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much higher rates of volunteering than most similar areas define community life in Aramac. While 23.9% of residents volunteer, which is well above the national figure, this level of participation has dropped since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Nearly a quarter of residents volunteer, a figure that is well above the 14.1% seen across Queensland and Australia. However, this has fallen by 6.9 percentage points over the last decade.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
People are far more likely to spend 15 or more hours a week on unpaid housework here than in most other areas. In contrast, those caring for children unpaid (22.3%) and those providing general unpaid care (8.7%) are both well below national levels.
8.7% ▲ +3.0%
Lower than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.3% ▼ -28.3%
Lower than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 31.1%
- 2016: 34.6%
- 2021: 22.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.5% ▼ -2.8%
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.3%
- 2016: 24.5%
- 2021: 25.5%
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.
Defence service is less common here than in most similar areas, with 2.7% of people having served. This is a little below the Queensland figure and about the same as the Australian average.
2.7%
Lower than 73% 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 Aramac [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322005/aramac/topic/community