24.5% ▼ -23.5%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.0%
- 2016: 29.8%
- 2021: 24.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Emu Vale · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Emu Vale
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A far higher share of people volunteer in Emu Vale than in the rest of the country. About 24.5% of residents give their time to help others, which is 10 percentage points above the state and national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 24.5% of people helping out, a rate much higher than in most similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While only 11.3% of people provide unpaid childcare—far below the national figure of 26.3%—unpaid housework is much more common, with 35.8% of residents doing 15 or more hours a week. Overall, people providing some form of unpaid care (13.9%) are a little more common than in the state or nation.
13.9% ▲ +8.7%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 10.6%
- 2021: 13.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
11.3% ▼ -60.4%
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.5%
- 2016: 16.8%
- 2021: 11.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
35.8% ▲ +5.3%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.0%
- 2016: 29.2%
- 2021: 35.8%
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 has served in the Defence Force, which is well below the Queensland figure 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 Emu Vale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30976/emu-vale/topic/community