19.1% —
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 39.4%
- 2021: 19.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Formartin · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Formartin
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong spirit of helping others defines Formartin, where nearly one in five people volunteer. This level of community involvement is well above the Queensland and national figures, and is paired with a very high rate of unpaid care and housework.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 19.1% of people in Formartin volunteer, which is around the middle for similar areas but well above the 14.1% seen across Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common here, with 32.4% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework—far above the national figure of 20.7%. This high level of home work is seen alongside more people providing unpaid care (17.6%) and caring for children (29.4%) than in most other areas.
17.6% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.6%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
29.4% —
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 43.9%
- 2021: 29.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
32.4% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 32.4%
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 reported serving in the Defence Force, a figure that is well below the Queensland average 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 Formartin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31071/formartin/topic/community