14.9% ▼ -25.7%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.0%
- 2016: 22.8%
- 2021: 14.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
East Greenmount · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in East Greenmount
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people do heavy housework in East Greenmount than in the rest of the state. While 26.4% of residents spend 15 or more hours a week on unpaid chores, other forms of community work and care are less common here.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.9% of people volunteer their time, which is lower than in most similar areas and about the same as the Queensland and national figures.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
A much higher proportion of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework than the state average. In contrast, those caring for children unpaid are well below the national figure at 22.3%, while unpaid care for others is about the same as the rest of the country.
11.8% ▲ +8.0%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.9%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.3% ▼ -1.5%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.6%
- 2016: 26.4%
- 2021: 22.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.4% ▲ +0.7%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.2%
- 2016: 30.9%
- 2021: 26.4%
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 served in the Defence Force make up 1.7% of the population, which is a little below the Queensland and Australian figures.
1.7%
Lower than 62% 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 Greenmount [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30925/east-greenmount/topic/community