14.5% ▼ -39.7%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.1%
- 2016: 17.7%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Alberton · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Alberton
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A higher than usual proportion of former Defence Force members live in Alberton, where 3.5% of the population has served. While most residents follow state and national patterns in volunteering and care, there are more people providing unpaid childcare here than in most similar areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.5% of people in Alberton volunteer, which is lower than most areas but remains about the same as the Queensland and Australian figures.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is common here, with 27.5% of people providing this care—a figure higher than most areas. Meanwhile, those providing other unpaid care or doing 15 or more hours of housework are lower than most areas.
11.2% ▼ -16.0%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 11.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.5% ▼ -6.8%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.5%
- 2016: 29.2%
- 2021: 27.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.9% ▼ -3.1%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.5%
- 2016: 24.2%
- 2021: 20.9%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 3.5% of the population, which is higher than most areas and a little above the national figure of 2.8%.
3.5%
Higher than 64% 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 Alberton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30022/alberton/topic/community