8.9% —
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 8.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lethebrook · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lethebrook
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far fewer people volunteer in Lethebrook than in the rest of the state, with only 8.9% of residents giving their time. This gap highlights a community where formal volunteering is much lower than the national figure of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 8.9% of people here volunteer, a figure that is well below both the Queensland and Australian averages of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 11.1% provide unpaid care, which is about the same as the national figure, a far higher proportion of residents (35.6%) do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework. In contrast, the 20.0% of people caring for children unpaid is well below the national average of 26.3%.
11.1% —
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.0% —
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.2%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
35.6% —
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.2%
- 2021: 35.6%
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 Lethebrook 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 Lethebrook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31654/lethebrook/topic/community