20.2% ▼ -5.3%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.3%
- 2016: 23.5%
- 2021: 20.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Hawthorne · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Hawthorne
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more residents in Hawthorne contribute their time to others than in most similar areas. About 20.2% of the population volunteer, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. This high level of community spirit is seen across both formal volunteering and unpaid family care.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
The volunteering rate in Hawthorne is 20.2%, which is well above the 14.1% seen across both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is common here, with 30.2% of people providing this care, which is well above the national figure of 26.3%. Meanwhile, 10.8% of residents provide some form of unpaid care, which is a little below the Australian average.
10.8% ▲ +66.4%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.5%
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.2% ▲ +7.2%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.2%
- 2016: 32.9%
- 2021: 30.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.5% ▲ +18.4%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.3%
- 2016: 18.9%
- 2021: 20.5%
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.
About 2.5% of the people in Hawthorne have served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the Australian average of 2.8%.
2.5%
Lower 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 Hawthorne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31305/hawthorne/topic/community