15.7% —
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 15.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Brookhill · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Brookhill
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly a third of people in Brookhill provide unpaid childcare, which is well above the national figure. This reflects a community where family care is common, though other forms of unpaid support and service are less frequent.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 15.7% of residents volunteer, which is a little above the Queensland and Australian rates of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 30% of people provide unpaid childcare and 25.7% do over 15 hours of housework, both well above the national figures, only 4.3% provide other types of unpaid care. This rate is well below the 11.9% seen across Australia.
4.3% —
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.0% —
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 30.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.7% —
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 43.3%
- 2021: 25.7%
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 Brookhill has served in the Defence Force, a figure well below the Queensland rate of 3.9%.
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 Brookhill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30387/brookhill/topic/community