16.6% ▼ -41.0%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.1%
- 2016: 25.1%
- 2021: 16.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Canina · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Canina
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people in Canina are now contributing their time to others than in previous years. This is a helpful community where 16.6% of residents volunteer and a high number of people take on significant unpaid responsibilities at home.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.6% of people in Canina volunteer, which is a little above the 14.1% seen across both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common here, with 30.2% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly—well above the national figure of 20.7%. This trend extends to other care roles, as providing unpaid care (14.9%) and caring for children (28.9%) are both higher than in most areas.
14.9% ▲ +31.9%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.3%
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 14.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
28.9% ▲ +8.4%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.6%
- 2016: 25.7%
- 2021: 28.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.2% ▼ -10.5%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.8%
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 30.2%
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 than most areas have served in the Defence Force, with 3.2% of the population having served.
3.2%
Higher than 60% 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 Canina [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30513/canina/topic/community