24.2% ▼ -15.3%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.6%
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 24.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Leslie Dam · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Leslie Dam
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people volunteer in Leslie Dam than in most similar areas. About 24.2% of residents give their time to others, which is far above the national figure of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates are very high here, with 24.2% of people helping out, a figure 10 percentage points higher than both the Queensland and Australian averages.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children (18.9%) and general care (7.4%) are both much lower than in most areas. However, 25.3% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, which is well above the national figure of 20.7%.
7.4% ▼ -52.4%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.5%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
18.9% ▼ -29.8%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.0%
- 2016: 31.1%
- 2021: 18.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.3% ▼ -23.2%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.9%
- 2016: 33.6%
- 2021: 25.3%
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 proportion of residents have served in the Defence Force compared to similar areas, with 5% of the population having served, which is a little above the Australian average of 2.8%.
5.0%
Higher than 80% 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 Leslie Dam [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31653/leslie-dam/topic/community