18.0% ▼ -13.1%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.7%
- 2016: 21.0%
- 2021: 18.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
East Brisbane · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in East Brisbane
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement in East Brisbane has remained steady over the last decade, with a notably high proportion of residents stepping up to help others. About 18% of people volunteer their time, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Nearly one in five residents is a volunteer, a rate that sits well above both the Queensland and Australian averages by 3.9 percentage points.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is much less common here than in most areas. Only 18% of people provide unpaid childcare and 13.7% do over 15 hours of housework weekly, both figures sitting well below the national average.
8.6% ▲ +24.4%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.9%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 8.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
18.0% ▼ -1.4%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.3%
- 2016: 17.9%
- 2021: 18.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
13.7% ▲ +15.4%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 13.7%
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 have served in the Defence Force make up 2.5% of the population, which is about the same as the Australian figure of 2.8%.
2.5%
Lower than 52% 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 East Brisbane [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30919/east-brisbane/topic/community