27.5% —
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 27.7%
- 2021: 27.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Gladfield · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Gladfield
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong spirit of helping out defines daily life in Gladfield, where 27.5% of people volunteer. This level of community involvement is far above the national figure of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
More than a quarter of residents volunteer their time, which is much higher than most similar areas and far 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 35.3% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly. This is far above the national figure of 20.7%, and 33.3% of residents provide unpaid childcare, which is well above the 26.3% seen across Australia.
13.7% —
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.4%
- 2021: 13.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
33.3% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.4%
- 2021: 33.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
35.3% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 27.7%
- 2021: 35.3%
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 in Gladfield than in most other areas, with 5.6% of people having served. This is a little above both the Queensland figure of 3.9% and the national rate of 2.8%.
5.6%
Higher than 86% 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 Gladfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31131/gladfield/topic/community