6.7% —
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 46.9%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Highland Plains · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Highland Plains
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Highland Plains involves a high level of unpaid caregiving but very little formal volunteering. While 24.4% of people provide some form of unpaid care, the rate of volunteering is well below the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 6.7% of people here volunteer, which is among the lowest for similar areas and well below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common, with 24.4% of residents providing care—far above the 11.9% national average. However, the 15.6% who care for children unpaid is far below the national figure of 26.3%.
24.4% —
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 24.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
15.6% —
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 40.6%
- 2021: 15.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.2% —
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 50.0%
- 2021: 22.2%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, which is well below the Queensland average of 3.9%.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Highland Plains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31335/highland-plains/topic/community