13.0% ▼ -15.6%
Lower than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.4%
- 2016: 26.5%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Yelarbon · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Yelarbon
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Fifteen per cent of people provide unpaid care in Yelarbon (L), a figure that is well above the national average. While few residents have served in the military or volunteer their time, there is a strong presence of people supporting others through unpaid care work.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is much lower here than in most similar areas, with 13.0% of people helping out. This is a little below the national figure and has fallen by 2.4 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
The number of people providing unpaid care is well above the national figure at 15.2%, though those caring for children unpaid is well below the average at 19.6%. Meanwhile, 20.1% of residents do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, which is about the same as the national figure.
15.2% ▲ +28.8%
Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 12.4%
- 2021: 15.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.6% ▲ +13.7%
Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.2%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 19.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.1% ▼ -22.7%
Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.0%
- 2016: 24.8%
- 2021: 20.1%
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.
No one in the area has 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 Yelarbon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322138/yelarbon/topic/community