27.5% ▲ +18.5%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.2%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 27.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Glen Isla · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Glen Isla
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a quarter of people in Glen Isla volunteer, making it a place with a very high level of community involvement. While 27.5% of residents give their time to others, very few people here are providing unpaid care for children.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 27.5% of people helping out. This is far above the Queensland and national figures of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Only 7.5% of residents provide unpaid childcare, which is far below the national figure of 26.3%. However, 15% of people provide other types of unpaid care, a rate well above the 11.9% seen across Australia.
15.0% ▲ +81.0%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 15.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
7.5% ▼ -72.2%
Lower than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.0%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 7.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
15.0% ▼ -40.0%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 35.7%
- 2021: 15.0%
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 has served in the Defence Force, which is lower than most areas and well below the Queensland rate 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 Glen Isla [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31147/glen-isla/topic/community