15.5% ▼ -9.2%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.1%
- 2016: 21.1%
- 2021: 15.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Glenella · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Glenella
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A high proportion of residents in Glenella provide unpaid child care, which stands out as the most defining feature of local community life. Around 32.6% of people look after children without pay, a figure well above both the state and national averages.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 15.5% of people here volunteer, which is a little above the 14.1% seen across Queensland and Australia, though this is lower than in most similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 32.6% of people provide unpaid childcare—well above the national figure of 26.3%—rates of providing other unpaid care and doing 15 or more hours of housework are both lower than the state and national averages.
10.4% ▲ +14.7%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.1%
- 2016: 10.6%
- 2021: 10.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
32.6% ▼ -9.1%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.9%
- 2016: 34.6%
- 2021: 32.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.5% ▼ -17.6%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.5%
- 2016: 23.3%
- 2021: 18.5%
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.
People who have served in the Defence Force make up 2.8% of the population, which is about the same as the Australian average and around the middle for similar areas.
2.8%
Higher than 53% 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 Glenella [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31159/glenella/topic/community