20.9% ▼ -10.6%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.4%
- 2016: 24.7%
- 2021: 20.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Auchenflower · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Auchenflower
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A striking 20.9% of people in Auchenflower volunteer, a figure well above the national average. This level of community involvement stands out in a place where residents are much less likely to be tied down by unpaid care duties compared to other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 20.9% of residents helping out, which is 6.8 percentage points higher than the Queensland and Australian figures.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is much less common than in most areas. Only 20% of people provide unpaid childcare and 16.5% do 15 or more hours of housework, both of which are well below the national figures.
9.3% ▲ +22.3%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.6%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 9.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.0% ▲ +1.8%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.6%
- 2016: 20.7%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
16.5% ▲ +17.7%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 16.5%
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 2.8% of the population have served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the Australian average and a little below the Queensland figure.
2.8%
Higher than 52% 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 Auchenflower [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30101/auchenflower/topic/community