19.1% ▼ -14.3%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.3%
- 2016: 24.4%
- 2021: 19.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Clifton · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Clifton
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A much higher rate of volunteering sets Clifton apart from the rest of the state. Around 19.1% of residents give their time to help others, which is well above the 14.1% figure seen across Queensland and Australia.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 19.1% of people helping out, a figure well above the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While those providing unpaid care are a little more common than in the state average at 14.2%, the number of people caring for children is well below the national figure at 20.9%. Meanwhile, 24.3% of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, which is well above the 20.7% seen across Australia.
14.2% ▲ +7.9%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 14.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.9% ▼ -12.1%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.8%
- 2016: 21.7%
- 2021: 20.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.3% ▼ -19.9%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.3%
- 2016: 24.9%
- 2021: 24.3%
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 much more common here than in most similar areas, with 5.5% of people having served, which is a little above the national rate of 2.8%.
5.5%
Higher than 85% 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 Clifton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30624/clifton/topic/community