11.5% ▼ -63.4%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.5%
- 2016: 13.8%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Ideraway · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Ideraway
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A huge 34.6% of people in Ideraway provide unpaid care, a figure that is far above the national average. This reflects a community where a large proportion of residents take on significant care and domestic responsibilities. Other forms of community involvement, such as volunteering and defence service, are much less common here.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is less common in Ideraway than in most other areas, with 11.5% of people helping out, which is a little below the Queensland and Australian figures.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
The level of unpaid work is very high here; 38.5% of people care for children and 34.6% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, both figures being far above the national averages.
34.6% ▲ +96.9%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.6%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 34.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
38.5% ▲ +25.9%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.6%
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 38.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
34.6% ▲ +52.8%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.7%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 34.6%
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 Ideraway has served in the Defence Force, which is well below the Queensland rate of 3.9% and a little below the Australian figure.
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 Ideraway [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31381/ideraway/topic/community