17.4% ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.2%
- 2016: 21.8%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Alexandra Headland · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Alexandra Headland
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community engagement has evolved in Alexandra Headland, where 17.4% of people now volunteer. This is well above the national and state figures of 14.1%. While many residents contribute their time to others, the area sees much lower rates of unpaid care and housework compared to most of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.4% of people volunteer here, which is well above the 14.1% recorded for both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is less common here than in most areas, with only 10.3% of people providing care. This is consistent with much lower rates of people doing over 15 hours of housework (17.1%) or caring for children unpaid (20.1%) compared to the national figures.
10.3% ▲ +27.1%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.1% ▼ -12.3%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.9%
- 2016: 20.6%
- 2021: 20.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
17.1% ▲ +2.5%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.7%
- 2016: 14.4%
- 2021: 17.1%
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.
A higher share of residents than most areas have served in the Defence Force, with 3.6% of the population having served.
3.6%
Higher than 66% 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 Alexandra Headland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30030/alexandra-headland/topic/community