31.3% ▲ +14.2%
Higher than 91% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 27.4%
- 2016: 36.1%
- 2021: 31.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Quilpie · Council (LGA)
Community Participation in Quilpie
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over 31% of people in Quilpie volunteer, a figure far above the national average. This high level of community involvement defines the area, where residents are much more likely to give their time than people in the rest of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 31.3% of people helping out. This is 17 percentage points higher than the figures for Queensland and Australia, and it has risen since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
The proportion of people providing unpaid care is well below the national figure at 8.4%. Similarly, those caring for children unpaid (23.8%) and those doing significant unpaid housework (19.3%) are both a little below state and national levels.
8.4% ▼ -17.3%
Lower than 87% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 8.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.8% ▼ -15.6%
Lower than 59% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 28.2%
- 2016: 26.7%
- 2021: 23.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.3% ▼ -9.3%
Lower than 72% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 21.3%
- 2016: 20.2%
- 2021: 19.3%
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 3.4% of residents have served in the Defence Force. This is higher than most areas, though it is about the same as the figures for Queensland and Australia.
3.4%
Higher than 65% 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 Quilpie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA36150/quilpie/topic/community