22.7% —
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 27.3%
- 2021: 22.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Cania · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Cania
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong spirit of helping out defines daily life in Cania, where 22.7% of people volunteer. This level of community involvement is well above the national figure of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Nearly 23% of residents volunteer their time, which is much higher than most similar areas and well above the Queensland average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Care for children is common here, with 36.4% of people doing so unpaid, a figure far above the national average. In contrast, there are no people providing unpaid care for the elderly or disabled, and those doing 15 or more hours of housework are well below the state figure.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
36.4% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 36.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
13.6% —
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did 15 hours or more of unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census.
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 Cania [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30512/cania/topic/community