17.7% ▼ -34.5%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.1%
- 2016: 24.8%
- 2021: 17.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Image Flat · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Image Flat
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong spirit of unpaid help defines daily life in Image Flat, where 17.5% of people provide care for others. This level of community support is well above the national figure and reflects a place where many residents dedicate their time to helping others.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 17.7% of residents giving their time, which is well above the 14.1% recorded for both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Giving back is a major part of life in Image Flat; 17.5% of people provide unpaid care and 30.2% do at least 15 hours of housework weekly, both of which are well above national figures. Meanwhile, 23.5% of people care for children unpaid, which is a little below the 26.3% national average.
17.5% ▲ +25.2%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.9%
- 2016: 15.4%
- 2021: 17.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.5% ▼ -7.1%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.3%
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 23.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.2% ▼ -2.2%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.8%
- 2016: 26.5%
- 2021: 30.2%
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.
The proportion of people who served in the Defence Force is 2.9%, which is about the same as the national figure of 2.8%.
2.9%
Higher than 55% 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 Image Flat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31386/image-flat/topic/community