18.4% ▼ -20.0%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.1%
- 2016: 24.4%
- 2021: 18.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Killarney · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Killarney
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly one in five people in Killarney volunteer their time, making it a place where community involvement is much more common than in the rest of the country. This spirit of giving is seen in the 18.4% of residents who volunteer, a figure well above the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 18.4% of residents helping out. This is well above the Queensland and Australian figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Far fewer people here provide unpaid childcare compared to the rest of Australia, where the figure is 26.3% against just 14.2% in Killarney. However, those doing 15 or more hours of housework per week are more common here than in the state, at 23.8%.
11.4% ▼ -8.9%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.5%
- 2016: 9.6%
- 2021: 11.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
14.2% ▼ -43.4%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.1%
- 2016: 19.9%
- 2021: 14.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.8% ▼ -12.5%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.2%
- 2016: 25.1%
- 2021: 23.8%
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 number of residents have served in the Defence Force than in most similar areas. At 4.2%, this is a little above the national figure of 2.8%.
4.2%
Higher than 73% 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 Killarney [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31531/killarney/topic/community