21.8% ▼ -12.8%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 21.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Kiels Mountain · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Kiels Mountain
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over a third of people in Kiels Mountain provide unpaid childcare, marking it as a community with very high levels of family and social support. Residents are far more likely to help out at home and in the community than those in most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 21.8% of people giving their time. This is well above the 14.1% figure seen across both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Home and family duties are very high, as 33.5% of people provide unpaid childcare and 31.2% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly. Both figures are far above the national and state averages, while unpaid care for others is also higher than most areas at 14.8%.
14.8% ▲ +18.5%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.5%
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
33.5% ▲ +1.3%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.0%
- 2016: 33.1%
- 2021: 33.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
31.2% ▲ +1.2%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.8%
- 2016: 28.2%
- 2021: 31.2%
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.
A higher proportion of the population has served in the Defence Force compared to most areas, with 4.1% of residents having served. This is a little above the Australian figure of 2.8% and about the same as Queensland's 3.9%.
4.1%
Higher than 72% 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 Kiels Mountain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31525/kiels-mountain/topic/community