20.4% ▼ -40.9%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.6%
- 2016: 28.4%
- 2021: 20.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Closeburn · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Closeburn
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong spirit of helping others defines daily life in Closeburn, where residents are far more likely to volunteer and provide unpaid care than people in other areas. This commitment is seen in the 20.4% of people who volunteer their time, a figure well above the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 20.4% of people here volunteer, which is well above the 14.1% seen across Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Residents take on significant unpaid roles at home, with 30.4% caring for children and 30.2% doing over 15 hours of housework weekly, both of which are well above the national figures. Additionally, 15.7% provide other unpaid care, a rate much higher than most areas.
15.7% ▲ +76.9%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 15.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.4% ▼ -25.0%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.6%
- 2016: 35.9%
- 2021: 30.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.2% ▼ -4.0%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.5%
- 2016: 28.0%
- 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.
Defence service is more common here than in most similar areas, with 4.0% of people having served, slightly above the 2.8% national figure.
4.0%
Higher than 72% 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 Closeburn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30631/closeburn/topic/community