20.4% ▼ -13.0%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.4%
- 2016: 26.3%
- 2021: 20.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Highfields · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Highfields
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Highfields stands out as a highly active community where residents are much more likely to volunteer and care for others than people in most other areas. About 20.4% of people here volunteer, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common in Highfields, with 20.4% of residents giving their time. This is well above the 14.1% recorded for both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Care work is very prevalent here, with 29.9% of people providing unpaid childcare and 26.7% spending 15 or more hours a week on housework. Both figures are well above the national averages, while 13.9% of residents provide some form of unpaid care.
13.9% ▲ +14.7%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 13.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
29.9% ▼ -17.7%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.3%
- 2016: 32.3%
- 2021: 29.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.7% ▼ -14.6%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.3%
- 2016: 28.5%
- 2021: 26.7%
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 more common here than in most areas. About 7.4% of residents have served in the Defence Force, which is well above the 3.9% in Queensland and 2.8% across Australia.
7.4%
Higher than 90% 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 Highfields [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31330/highfields/topic/community