7.3% ▼ -43.8%
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 15.7%
- 2021: 7.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Horn · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Horn
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Horn is marked by a high number of people looking after children, though other forms of community involvement are less common. While 33.5% of residents provide unpaid childcare, only 7.3% of the community spend time volunteering, which is well below the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates are among the lowest for areas like this, with only 7.3% of residents participating—well below the 14.1% seen across Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is common here at 33.5%, which is well above the national figure of 26.3%. However, other types of unpaid work are much lower than most areas, with only 7.6% of people providing general unpaid care.
7.6% ▼ -15.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
33.5% ▲ +37.7%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.3%
- 2016: 23.1%
- 2021: 33.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
15.1% ▲ +64.0%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 15.1%
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.
A higher than usual proportion of the community has served in the Defence Force, with 3.7% of residents having served, which is about the same as the figures for Queensland and Australia.
3.7%
Higher than 68% 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 Horn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31359/horn/topic/community