19.3% ▼ -21.0%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.5%
- 2016: 26.4%
- 2021: 19.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Fairfield · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Fairfield
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly one in five people in Fairfield spend their spare time volunteering. This makes the area much more active in community work than the rest of Queensland and Australia, where the national figure is just 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 19.3% of residents volunteer, a rate that is well above both the state and national figures by 5.2 percentage points.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care roles are much less common here than in most areas. Only 9.8% of people provide unpaid care, and the proportion of those caring for children is well below the national figure of 26.3%.
9.8% ▲ +2.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 9.0%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.6% ▼ -2.5%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.1%
- 2016: 20.8%
- 2021: 21.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.2% ▲ +6.7%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.0%
- 2016: 13.9%
- 2021: 18.2%
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 lower than in most areas, with 2.0% of the population having served. This is a little below the Queensland rate of 3.9% and about the same as the Australian figure.
2.0%
Lower than 59% 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 Fairfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31014/fairfield/topic/community