11.3% ▼ -29.9%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.1%
- 2016: 14.2%
- 2021: 11.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Fortitude Valley · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Fortitude Valley
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far fewer people engage in unpaid care and volunteering in Fortitude Valley compared to the rest of the country. Only 8.6% of residents provide unpaid childcare, which is far below the national figure of 26.3%. This trend highlights a community with very low rates of domestic and caregiving responsibilities.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 11.3% of people in Fortitude Valley volunteer, which is much lower than most similar areas and a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very uncommon here; just 5.1% provide care for others, and only 8.4% spend 15 or more hours on housework. Both figures are far below the national averages of 11.9% and 20.7% respectively.
5.1% ▲ +4.2%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.9%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
8.6% ▲ +4.4%
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 8.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
8.4% ▲ +27.5%
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 8.4%
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.
About 2.3% of the population have served in the Defence Force, which is around the middle for similar areas and about the same as the Australian average of 2.8%.
2.3%
Lower than 56% 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 Fortitude Valley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31074/fortitude-valley/topic/community