23.9% ▼ -15.4%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.3%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 23.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Yorke Island · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Yorke Island
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a third of people on Yorke Island provide unpaid childcare, a figure well above the national average. This sparsely populated area shows a strong trend of local contribution through caregiving and community support. It also has a notably high number of residents who have served in the Defence Force.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Almost 24% of residents are volunteers, which is well above the 14.1% seen across Queensland and Australia, though this is 4.4 percentage points lower than in 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common here, with 16.3% of people providing general unpaid care and 25% spending 15 or more hours a week on housework. Childcare is particularly high, as 35.3% of residents care for children unpaid, an 11 point increase since 2011.
16.3% ▲ +8.2%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.1%
- 2016: 12.9%
- 2021: 16.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
35.3% ▲ +45.3%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 24.3%
- 2016: 41.0%
- 2021: 35.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.0% ▲ +52.1%
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.4%
- 2016: 29.0%
- 2021: 25.0%
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 far more common here than elsewhere, with 13.3% of the population having served, compared to just 2.8% nationally.
13.3%
Higher 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 Yorke Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322139/yorke-island/topic/community