25.0% —
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.4%
- 2021: 25.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Evanslea · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Evanslea
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Half of all residents in Evanslea do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework each week. This high level of home-based work is part of a broader pattern of community and family support, with very high rates of volunteering and child care compared to the rest of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
One in four people here volunteer, which is far above the national figure of 14.1% and much higher than most similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is very common at 37.5%, far above the Queensland average. While housework rates are among the highest in the country, the number of people providing other types of unpaid care is far below the state and national figures.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
37.5% —
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 38.5%
- 2021: 37.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
50.0% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 26.9%
- 2021: 50.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did 15 hours or more of unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census.
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 Evanslea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31008/evanslea/topic/community