8.5% ▼ -29.0%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.0%
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 8.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Browns Plains · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Browns Plains
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement in Browns Plains has seen a shift in how people spend their spare time. While a higher-than-average 28.3% of residents provide unpaid childcare, very few people volunteer their time compared to other areas. This creates a local landscape where family support is common but formal community volunteering is much lower than the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 8.5% of people in Browns Plains volunteer, which is well below the 14.1% seen across both Queensland and Australia. This rate is among the lowest for similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is more common here than in most areas, with 28.3% of people providing this support. However, the proportion of people doing 15 or more hours of housework is much lower than most areas, at 17.6%.
10.2% ▲ +0.1%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 10.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
28.3% ▼ -10.8%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.7%
- 2016: 30.3%
- 2021: 28.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
17.6% ▼ -15.1%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.8%
- 2016: 19.1%
- 2021: 17.6%
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 2.2% of the population. This is around the middle for its level, though a little below the Queensland figure of 3.9%.
2.2%
Lower than 57% 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 Browns Plains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30395/browns-plains/topic/community