13.1% ▼ -13.8%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.2%
- 2016: 18.0%
- 2021: 13.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Gulliver · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Gulliver
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong military presence shapes daily life in Gulliver, where 6.4% of people have served in the Defence Force. While service rates are high, other forms of community involvement and unpaid care are generally lower than in other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates are quite low here, with 13.1% of residents helping out, which is a little below the national and state figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Fewer people perform unpaid care roles compared to most areas. This includes 23.4% caring for children, which is well below the Queensland average of 26.5%, and 18.1% doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly.
11.8% ▲ +15.0%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.3%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.4% ▼ -2.0%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.9%
- 2016: 27.4%
- 2021: 23.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.1% ▼ -22.0%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.2%
- 2016: 21.5%
- 2021: 18.1%
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 much more common here than in most areas. At 6.4%, this is well above the Australian figure of 2.8% and a little above the Queensland rate of 3.9%.
6.4%
Higher than 88% 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 Gulliver [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31263/gulliver/topic/community