19.7% ▼ -27.9%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.3%
- 2016: 26.7%
- 2021: 19.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Freestone · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Freestone
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Giving back to others has remained a strong feature of life in Freestone. The area is marked by a very high level of unpaid care and a strong volunteering rate, with 19.7% of residents helping out in their community.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Almost one in five people volunteer here, a figure that is well above the Queensland and Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common in Freestone, where 23.1% of people provide care—far above the national figure of 11.9%. This is consistent with a much higher than usual 30.6% of residents caring for children unpaid and 35.8% doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly.
23.1% ▲ +19.3%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.4%
- 2016: 16.1%
- 2021: 23.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.6% ▼ -26.4%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.6%
- 2016: 29.4%
- 2021: 30.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
35.8% ▲ +9.8%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.7%
- 2016: 26.7%
- 2021: 35.8%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 5.1% of the population, which is much higher than most similar areas and a little above the national average of 2.8%.
5.1%
Higher than 82% 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 Freestone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31084/freestone/topic/community