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Fifteen Mile · Suburb / Locality

Community Participation in Fifteen Mile

How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.

A far higher share of people provide unpaid care in Fifteen Mile compared to the rest of the country. While 46.7% of residents care for children unpaid, very few people in the area volunteer their time.

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📍 Fifteen Mile, Suburb / Locality

Where Fifteen Mile sits — Volunteers

10.0% —

All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Fifteen Mile — lower than 87% of areas.

Fifteen Mile10.0%
4352, QLD 18.5%
Queensland 14.1%
Australia 14.1%

Participation

Volunteering for organisations and groups.

Only 10% of people volunteer here, which is well below the Queensland and national figure of 14.1%.

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10.0% —

Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.

Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.

Unpaid care & work

Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.

The area has a very high rate of unpaid care, with 16.7% of people providing it and 23.3% doing over 15 hours of housework. This is most striking among those caring for children unpaid, at 46.7%, which is far above the national figure of 26.3%.

Defence service

People who served in the Australian Defence Force.

No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is well below the 3.9% seen across Queensland.

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 Fifteen Mile [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31036/fifteen-mile/topic/community