16.9% ▼ -23.9%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.3%
- 2016: 21.8%
- 2021: 16.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Innes Park · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Innes Park
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Well above the national figures for unpaid care, Innes Park is a community where residents contribute heavily to their families and country. More than 31% of people here look after children without pay, and there is a notably strong history of military service.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Around 16.9% of people in Innes Park volunteer, which is a little above the 14.1% recorded for both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very common here, with 14.5% of people providing care and 25.7% doing over 15 hours of housework weekly, both well above the state and national figures. This is most evident with childcare, as the 31.6% of people doing this is much higher than most areas.
14.5% ▲ +17.6%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 11.4%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
31.6% ▼ -12.2%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.0%
- 2016: 32.4%
- 2021: 31.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.7% ▼ -19.8%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.0%
- 2016: 27.2%
- 2021: 25.7%
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 much higher share of residents have served in the Defence Force compared to most areas, with 5.2% of the population having served, which is a little above the national figure of 2.8%.
5.2%
Higher than 82% 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 Innes Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31397/innes-park/topic/community