18.6% ▼ -20.5%
Higher than 56% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 23.4%
- 2016: 25.2%
- 2021: 18.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Murweh · Council (LGA)
Community Participation in Murweh
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Volunteering and unpaid childcare have both dropped since 2011 in Murweh. While 18.6% of the community still give their time to volunteer, this is down from 23.4% a decade ago. The area generally shows lower rates of unpaid home and care work compared to both the state and the rest of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Nearly one in five people (18.6%) volunteer in Murweh, which is well above the Queensland and national figure of 14.1%. This represents a 4.8 percentage point drop since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Far fewer people provide unpaid care here than in most other areas. Only 21.2% care for children unpaid—well below the 26.5% Queensland average—and 18.1% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly.
10.4% ▲ +28.8%
Lower than 73% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 8.0%
- 2016: 9.1%
- 2021: 10.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.2% ▼ -20.9%
Lower than 79% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 26.8%
- 2016: 26.2%
- 2021: 21.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.1% ▼ -20.4%
Lower than 78% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 22.8%
- 2016: 20.8%
- 2021: 18.1%
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.
About 2.3% of the population have served in the Defence Force. This is lower than most other areas and a little below the Queensland figure of 3.9%.
2.3%
Lower than 71% of council (lga) 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 Murweh [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA35600/murweh/topic/community