19.5% ▼ -10.6%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.8%
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 19.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Keppel Sands · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Keppel Sands
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly one in five residents in Keppel Sands volunteer their time, making the area far more active in this way than the national average. The community shows a strong commitment to helping others, with higher rates of unpaid care and military service than most similar places.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 19.5% of people giving their time, which is well above the 14.1% figure for both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is a mixed picture; while 14.8% of people provide unpaid care and 24.1% do plenty of housework, the number of people caring for children unpaid is much lower than most areas at 16.6%.
14.8% ▲ +71.1%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
16.6% ▼ -11.4%
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.7%
- 2016: 15.5%
- 2021: 16.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.1% ▼ -16.2%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.8%
- 2016: 26.4%
- 2021: 24.1%
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 much higher share of the population has served in the Defence Force compared to other areas, with 6.3% of residents having served, well above the Australian figure of 2.8%.
6.3%
Higher than 87% 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 Keppel Sands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31514/keppel-sands/topic/community