9.7% —
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Kurumbul · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Kurumbul
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A gap of nearly 6 percentage points separates Kurumbul from the rest of the state in child care, where 32.3% of people provide unpaid care. While child care is common, other forms of community involvement and service are much lower than national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is rare here, with only 9.7% of people pitching in. This is well below the 14.1% figure seen across both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 32.3% of people care for children unpaid—well above the national figure of 26.3%—other home duties are uncommon. Only 12.9% do 15 or more hours of housework, and no one in the area provides other types of unpaid care.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
32.3% —
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 38.2%
- 2021: 32.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
12.9% —
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 26.5%
- 2021: 12.9%
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 Kurumbul has served in the Defence Force, which is well below the Queensland rate of 3.9%.
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 Kurumbul [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31595/kurumbul/topic/community