14.0% ▼ -27.0%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.2%
- 2016: 27.1%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
El Arish · Urban Centre
Community Participation in El Arish
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A much lower rate of unpaid childcare marks El Arish, where only 16.4% of people provide this care. While volunteering and general unpaid care sit around the national average, the area has seen a huge drop in people caring for children over the last decade.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14% of people in El Arish volunteer, which is lower than most similar areas. This figure is about the same as the Queensland and Australian figures, though it has fallen by 5.2 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is far below the state figure at 16.4%, a massive fall of 35 percentage points since 2011. Meanwhile, 20.3% of people do 15 or more hours of housework, and 11.6% provide some form of unpaid care, both of which are about the same as the national figures.
11.6% ▼ -31.3%
Lower than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.9%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
16.4% ▼ -67.9%
Lower than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 51.2%
- 2016: 20.6%
- 2021: 16.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.3% ▲ +27.3%
Lower than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.9%
- 2016: 23.9%
- 2021: 20.3%
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 less common here than in most similar areas, with 2.4% of people having served. This is a little below the Queensland figure of 3.9% and about the same as the national rate.
2.4%
Lower than 78% 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 El Arish [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322039/el-arish/topic/community