18.8% —
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 30.4%
- 2021: 18.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Fairyland · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Fairyland
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Higher rates of unpaid work and volunteering set Fairyland apart from most similar areas. Local residents are notably more active in caring for others and their community than the national average. This is most striking in the home, where a large number of people dedicate significant time to unpaid chores and childcare.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates are well above the Queensland and Australian figures of 14.1%, with 18.8% of people in Fairyland giving their time.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common here; 34.8% of people care for children and 31.9% do at least 15 hours of housework weekly, both of which are far above national figures. This aligns with the 14.5% of residents who provide other forms of unpaid care, a rate well above the state average.
14.5% —
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 16.1%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
34.8% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 34.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
31.9% —
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 31.9%
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 Fairyland has served in the Defence Force, which is much lower than the state rate of 3.9% and a little below the Australian figure of 2.8%.
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 Fairyland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31017/fairyland/topic/community