20.4% ▼ -25.4%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.3%
- 2016: 26.5%
- 2021: 20.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Freshwater · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Freshwater
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A much higher rate of community involvement defines Freshwater, where volunteering is far more common than in the state or national averages. Residents here are more likely to give their time to others, with 20.4% volunteering in their spare time.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 20.4% of people volunteer here, which is well above the 14.1% figure for both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is common with 29.7% of residents providing care, which is well above the national figure. However, only 10% of people provide other forms of unpaid care, a rate that is much lower than most areas.
10.0% ▼ -0.8%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.1%
- 2016: 9.2%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
29.7% ▲ +0.9%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.5%
- 2016: 30.4%
- 2021: 29.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.5% ▼ -7.1%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.1%
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 21.5%
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.
Defence service is more common here than in most places, with 5.4% of residents having served in the Defence Force, slightly above the Queensland average of 3.9%.
5.4%
Higher than 85% 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 Freshwater [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31087/freshwater/topic/community