17.0% ▼ -23.6%
Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.3%
- 2016: 21.3%
- 2021: 17.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Burketown · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Burketown
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A small number of residents contribute their time to others in Burketown (L), where 17% of people volunteer. While this is slightly above the national figure, the proportion of people giving their time to community work has fallen by 5.3 percentage points since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17% of people here volunteer, which is a little above the Queensland and Australian figures of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children and housework is much lower than across the country, with only 9.2% of people caring for children. However, the number of people providing other types of unpaid care rose to 11.3% since 2011, bringing it close to the state and national figures.
11.3% ▲ +50.4%
Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 11.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
9.2% ▼ -42.8%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.1%
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 9.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
14.2% ▼ -5.4%
Lower than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.0%
- 2016: 17.0%
- 2021: 14.2%
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 other areas, with 2.9% of residents having served in the Defence Force.
2.9%
Lower than 68% 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 Burketown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322022/burketown/topic/community