38.3% ▼ -0.6%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.6%
- 2016: 38.6%
- 2021: 38.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Corfield · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Corfield
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A massive 38.3% of people in Corfield volunteer, a figure far above the national rate of 14.1%. This reflects a community with exceptionally high levels of local involvement and a strong tendency to give their time to others.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Nearly 4 in 10 residents volunteer here, which is among the highest rates for similar areas and 24 percentage points higher than the Queensland and Australian figures.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Care for children is common, with 30.8% of people doing so unpaid, which is well above the national figure of 26.3%. While 25.6% of people do at least 15 hours of unpaid housework, only 3.8% provide other types of unpaid care, a rate well below the state average.
3.8% ▼ -9.5%
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.8% ▲ +51.2%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.4%
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 30.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.6% ▼ -5.9%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.2%
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 25.6%
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.
About 2.9% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the 2.8% seen across Australia.
2.9%
Higher than 54% 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 Corfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30723/corfield/topic/community