28.1% ▼ -30.1%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.1%
- 2016: 29.9%
- 2021: 28.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Captains Mountain · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Captains Mountain
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people volunteer in Captains Mountain than in other parts of the country. Roughly 28.1% of residents give their time to others, which is double the national figure. This strong drive to help others is seen across several areas of community and family life.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 28.1% of people pitching in. This is far above the 14.1% seen across both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
A much higher number of residents provide unpaid childcare (35.1%) or spend 15 or more hours a week on housework (29.8%) compared to the rest of the state. However, the proportion of people providing other types of unpaid care is much lower than most areas at 7.0%.
7.0% ▼ -64.9%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.0%
- 2016: 13.4%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
35.1% ▼ -7.7%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.0%
- 2016: 28.4%
- 2021: 35.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
29.8% ▼ -23.8%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.1%
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 29.8%
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 prominent in Captains Mountain, where 13.2% of people have served. This is far above the national figure of 2.8% and among the highest levels for similar areas.
13.2%
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 Captains Mountain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30532/captains-mountain/topic/community