24.3% ▼ -25.2%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.5%
- 2016: 32.6%
- 2021: 24.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Camp Mountain · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Camp Mountain
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly one in four people in Camp Mountain volunteer, showing a high level of community involvement. This local spirit is matched by a strong culture of unpaid care and service, with figures for helping others far exceeding national levels.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 24.3% of people giving their time. This is far above the 14.1% seen across both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is a big part of daily life, as 30.9% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, which is far above the national figure of 20.7%. This high level of home effort is seen alongside figures for unpaid childcare (31.9%) and general care (15.8%) that are both well above the state and national averages.
15.8% ▲ +23.0%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 13.8%
- 2021: 15.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
31.9% ▼ -12.0%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.3%
- 2016: 37.2%
- 2021: 31.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.9% ▼ -0.2%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.0%
- 2016: 29.2%
- 2021: 30.9%
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.
A higher share of residents have served in the Defence Force compared to most other areas. At 4.2%, this is a little above the Australian average of 2.8% and about the same as the Queensland figure.
4.2%
Higher than 74% 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 Camp Mountain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30505/camp-mountain/topic/community