17.3% ▼ -10.4%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.3%
- 2016: 17.9%
- 2021: 17.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Eerwah Vale · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Eerwah Vale
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Mid-range levels of community involvement define Eerwah Vale, where 17.3% of people volunteer. This is well above the Queensland and Australian figures of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.3% of residents volunteer their time, which is a similar rate to other areas of its type and well above the national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Nearly 30% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly, a figure well above the national average of 20.7%. Meanwhile, 27.1% provide unpaid childcare, which is about the same as the rest of the country.
11.5% ▼ -9.6%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.1% ▲ +4.8%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.9%
- 2016: 30.7%
- 2021: 27.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
29.6% ▼ -13.8%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.4%
- 2016: 31.5%
- 2021: 29.6%
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.
Defence service is common for an area of this type, with 2.9% of people having served. This is about the same as the Australian figure of 2.8%.
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 Eerwah Vale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30944/eerwah-vale/topic/community