10.8% ▼ -43.1%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.9%
- 2016: 24.6%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Glenden · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Glenden
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Just 10.8% of people in Glenden volunteer their time, which is well below the national figure. This reflects a broader trend of lower community participation across the area compared to other regions. While unpaid childcare is common, other forms of care and service are much less frequent.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is far less common here than in most other areas, with 10.8% of residents helping out compared to 14.1% across Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 26.7% of people provide unpaid childcare, which is about the same as the national rate, other care roles are rare. Only 6.7% provide general unpaid care and 13.5% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, both figures well below the state average.
6.7% ▲ +56.6%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.7% ▼ -43.2%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 47.0%
- 2016: 36.8%
- 2021: 26.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
13.5% ▼ -47.9%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.9%
- 2016: 19.5%
- 2021: 13.5%
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 around the middle for areas like this, with 2.4% of the population having served, slightly below the Queensland figure of 3.9%.
2.4%
Lower than 54% 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 Glenden [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31157/glenden/topic/community