10.0% —
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Homestead · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Homestead
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Forty per cent of people in Homestead do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, a figure far above the national average. This high level of domestic work stands out in a place where other forms of community and care roles are much less common.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 10% of residents volunteer, which is well below the 14.1% recorded for both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 40% of people handle significant housework, those providing unpaid care or looking after children are far below the national figures, with no one providing general unpaid care.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
13.3% —
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
40.0% —
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 40.0%
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 Homestead has served in the Defence Force, a result that is lower than most areas and well below the Queensland figure 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 Homestead [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31354/homestead/topic/community