20.5% —
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 27.6%
- 2021: 20.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Airdmillan · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Airdmillan
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Roughly one in five people in Airdmillan provide unpaid care, a rate well above the national figure. This area shows a strong trend of community support, with high levels of volunteering and unpaid work in the home. However, there is very little history of military service here compared to other regions.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 20.5% of people helping out, which is well above the 14.1% figure seen across Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very frequent in Airdmillan, where 30.8% of people look after children and another 30.8% spend 15 or more hours a week on housework. This is far above the national figures, alongside a high 19.7% of residents who provide unpaid care.
19.7% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 17.1%
- 2021: 19.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.8% —
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 40.8%
- 2021: 30.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.8% —
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 21.1%
- 2021: 30.8%
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 reported serving in the Defence Force, which is well below the 3.9% seen in Queensland and a little below the Australian average.
0.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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 Airdmillan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30015/airdmillan/topic/community