21.8% ▼ -33.5%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.7%
- 2016: 34.7%
- 2021: 21.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Brookstead · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Brookstead
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A gap of 7.7 percentage points separates Brookstead from both the state and national average for volunteering. This is a place where locals give back, with 21.8% of people volunteering—a rate well above most other areas. This strong community spirit extends to other forms of unpaid support across the region.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 21.8% of residents volunteer their time, which is well above the 14.1% figure for both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 19.0% of people providing it—well above the national figure of 11.9%. In contrast, the 24.5% of people caring for children unpaid is a little below the Australian average of 26.3%.
19.0% ▲ +114.3%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 19.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.5% ▼ -35.9%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.2%
- 2016: 27.5%
- 2021: 24.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.4% ▼ -27.9%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.3%
- 2016: 29.3%
- 2021: 20.4%
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 2.1% of the population, which is a little below the Queensland figure of 3.9%.
2.1%
Lower than 59% 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 Brookstead [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30389/brookstead/topic/community