10.8% ▼ -30.3%
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.5%
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Calamvale · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Calamvale
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A gap of over 6 percentage points separates Calamvale from the national figure for child care, where 32.4% of people provide unpaid care for children. While this is much higher than most areas, other forms of community contribution and service are notably lower than the state and national averages.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 10.8% of people in Calamvale volunteer, a figure that is well below both the Queensland and Australian averages of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Calamvale sees much higher rates of unpaid childcare than most areas, at 32.4%. In contrast, the 9.1% of people providing other unpaid care and the 19.3% doing significant housework are both a little below the national figures.
9.1% ▼ -0.9%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 9.2%
- 2021: 9.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
32.4% ▲ +11.5%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.1%
- 2016: 30.8%
- 2021: 32.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.3% ▼ -0.4%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.4%
- 2016: 19.3%
- 2021: 19.3%
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 1.2% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is lower than most areas and a little below the 3.9% seen across Queensland.
1.2%
Lower than 65% 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 Calamvale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30480/calamvale/topic/community