12.6% ▼ -44.9%
Lower than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.8%
- 2016: 48.7%
- 2021: 12.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Yangan · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Yangan
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 30% of people in Yangan (L) spend 15 or more hours a week on unpaid housework, a figure well above the national average. This reflects a community where home-based work is common, even as formal volunteering has declined significantly over the last decade.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering has fallen sharply in Yangan (L), dropping 10 percentage points since 2011 to 12.6%. This is much lower than most similar areas and sits slightly below the Queensland and Australian figures.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid housework is very common here, with 29.1% of people doing 15 or more hours weekly, a figure that rose 15 points since 2011. This sits alongside 27.2% of people caring for children unpaid, while 10.6% provide other forms of unpaid care.
10.6% ▲ +32.5%
Lower than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.0%
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 10.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.2% ▲ +14.8%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.6%
- 2016: 44.9%
- 2021: 27.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
29.1% ▲ +101.2%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 29.1%
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 in Yangan (L) than in most other areas. About 6.2% of residents have served in the Defence Force, which is well above the national figure of 2.8%.
6.2%
Higher than 88% 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 Yangan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322137/yangan/topic/community