5.8% ▼ -63.5%
Lower than 97% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.9%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 5.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Laura · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Laura
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Zero people in Laura provided unpaid care in the 2021 census, marking a sharp drop in community support roles. This sparsely populated area has seen a significant decline in both volunteering and unpaid housework since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 5.8% of people in Laura volunteer, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%. This is among the lowest rates for similar areas and has fallen by 10 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care roles have plummeted here, with 0% providing general unpaid care and only 4.7% doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly. These figures are far below the national average and follow a steep downward trend since 2011.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.0%
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.9% ▼ -43.8%
Lower than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 37.3%
- 2016: 16.8%
- 2021: 20.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
4.7% ▼ -75.5%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.0%
- 2016: 31.1%
- 2021: 4.7%
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.
No residents in Laura have served in the Defence Force, which is well below the Queensland figure of 3.9%.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Laura [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322071/laura/topic/community