11.8% ▼ -19.1%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 17.7%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Marian · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Marian
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people in Marian provide unpaid childcare than in most other areas, with 37.3% of residents doing so. While family support is a strong feature of daily life here, other forms of community involvement like volunteering are less common.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 11.8% of people here volunteer, which is much lower than most areas and a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
The proportion of people caring for children unpaid is far above the Queensland figure, reaching 37.3%. However, those providing other types of unpaid care are much lower than most areas, at 9.3%.
9.3% ▲ +10.1%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 9.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
37.3% ▲ +2.1%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.6%
- 2016: 41.1%
- 2021: 37.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.4% ▼ -12.9%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.8%
- 2016: 25.4%
- 2021: 22.4%
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.
About 2.2% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is around the middle for similar areas and about the same as the Australian figure.
2.2%
Lower than 57% 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 Marian [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31766/marian/topic/community