21.5% ▼ -10.4%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.0%
- 2016: 25.1%
- 2021: 21.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Highgate Hill · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Highgate Hill
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A much higher rate of volunteering than the state average defines Highgate Hill, where 21.5% of people give their time to others. This strong community spirit contrasts with local figures for unpaid care, which are generally lower than across Queensland and Australia.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 21.5% of residents helping out, a figure well above the 14.1% seen across Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Fewer people perform unpaid care roles here than in most areas. Only 20.1% care for children and 15.7% do over 15 hours of housework weekly, both figures well below the national average.
10.4% ▲ +25.3%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 10.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.1% ▲ +10.7%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.1%
- 2016: 19.5%
- 2021: 20.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
15.7% ▲ +16.6%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.5%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 15.7%
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.
About 1.9% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the Queensland figure of 3.9%.
1.9%
Lower than 60% 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 Highgate Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31331/highgate-hill/topic/community