17.9% —
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 35.1%
- 2021: 17.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Eaton · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Eaton
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people spend their time on unpaid housework in Eaton than in most other areas. This community shows a strong lean toward volunteering and home-based work, though very few residents provide care for others or served in the military.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 17.9% of residents giving their time. This is well above the 14.1% figure seen across both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 33.3% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework—a rate far above the national figure of 20.7%—very few provide other types of care. Only 7.7% care for children unpaid, and 0.0% provide other unpaid care, both of which are far below state and national levels.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 21.6%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
7.7% —
Lower than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 32.4%
- 2021: 7.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
33.3% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 32.4%
- 2021: 33.3%
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 the area reported serving in the Defence Force, which is lower than most areas and well below the Queensland rate of 3.9%.
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 Eaton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30936/eaton/topic/community