10.5% ▼ -8.6%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.5%
- 2016: 14.6%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Burdell · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Burdell
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 40% of people provide unpaid childcare in Burdell, a figure that is far above the national average. This high level of family care stands in contrast to lower rates of general volunteering and other unpaid support roles.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is much lower than in most areas, with only 10.5% of residents pitching in, well below the 14.1% seen across Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 39.8% of people care for children unpaid—among the highest rates for similar areas—those providing other types of unpaid care or doing 15+ hours of housework are much less common than elsewhere.
7.9% ▼ -1.9%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
39.8% ▲ +3.8%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.3%
- 2016: 39.6%
- 2021: 39.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.8% ▼ -12.7%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.5%
- 2016: 20.7%
- 2021: 18.8%
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.
Defence service is very common here, with 15.7% of people having served in the force, which is far above the Australian figure of 2.8%.
15.7%
Higher 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 Burdell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30441/burdell/topic/community