24.4% ▼ -26.2%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.1%
- 2016: 30.0%
- 2021: 24.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Comet · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Comet
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Local involvement has grown since 2011, with Comet now seeing a huge number of residents giving their time to others. Nearly one in four people here volunteer, which is far above the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 24.4% of people in Comet volunteer, a rate that is much higher than most similar areas and 10 percentage points above the Queensland and Australian figures.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is less common here than in most areas, with 10.4% of people providing unpaid care and 23.4% caring for children unpaid, which is well below the state average.
10.4% ▲ +26.1%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 10.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.4% ▼ -35.1%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.1%
- 2016: 29.7%
- 2021: 23.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.1% ▼ -24.5%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.6%
- 2016: 21.5%
- 2021: 20.1%
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.
No one in Comet has served in the Defence Force, a rate that is well below the Queensland figure of 3.9% and lower than most other areas.
0.0%
Lower 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 Comet [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30656/comet/topic/community