17.0% ▼ -26.0%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.0%
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 17.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Carindale · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Carindale
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement in Carindale has remained steady, with nearly 30% of residents providing unpaid childcare. This is well above the national figure, marking a high level of family-based care within the area. Other forms of volunteering and service generally sit around the state and national averages.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17% of people in Carindale volunteer their time, which is a little above the 14.1% recorded for both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 29.8% of residents caring for children, a figure well above the national average of 26.3%. Additionally, 23.5% do 15 or more hours of housework and 12.5% provide other unpaid care, both slightly above state levels.
12.5% ▲ +16.5%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.8%
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 12.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
29.8% ▲ +2.9%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.0%
- 2016: 29.1%
- 2021: 29.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.5% ▲ +3.8%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.7%
- 2016: 22.7%
- 2021: 23.5%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 2.6% of the population, which is about the same as the Australian figure and a little below the Queensland rate.
2.6%
Lower than 51% 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 Carindale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30540/carindale/topic/community