24.8% ▼ -3.9%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.8%
- 2016: 27.8%
- 2021: 24.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Greenvale · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Greenvale
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Giving back to the community is a major part of daily life in Greenvale, where nearly 25% of residents volunteer. This level of involvement is far above the national figure and highlights a strong spirit of local contribution.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 24.8% of people pitching in, which is far above the 14.1% seen across Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is well below the national figure at 18.2%, and providing general unpaid care is also much lower than most areas at 7.9%. However, 23.6% of people do 15 or more hours of housework, which is a little above the state and national figures.
7.9% ▼ -41.9%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.6%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
18.2% ▼ -20.5%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.9%
- 2016: 19.7%
- 2021: 18.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.6% ▼ -21.8%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.2%
- 2016: 30.8%
- 2021: 23.6%
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.
Service to the country is strongly represented in Greenvale, where 9.1% of people have served in the Defence Force, a figure well above the 2.8% national average.
9.1%
Higher than 94% 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 Greenvale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31245/greenvale/topic/community