37.5% —
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Jaffa · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Jaffa
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong spirit of helping out defines daily life in Jaffa, where 37.5% of people volunteer. This level of community involvement is far above the national figure and among the highest for similar areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 37.5% of residents giving their time. This is far above the 14.1% recorded across both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is a major part of life for many, as 45.8% spend 15 or more hours on housework weekly. This is far above the national figure of 20.7%, alongside high rates of people caring for children (37.5%) and providing other unpaid care (25.0%).
25.0% —
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
37.5% —
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
45.8% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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 Jaffa has served in the Defence Force. This is well below the Queensland figure of 3.9% and a little below the national rate of 2.8%.
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 Jaffa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31425/jaffa/topic/community