15.9% ▲ +13.8%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.0%
- 2016: 17.8%
- 2021: 15.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Maroondan · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Maroondan
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community engagement in Maroondan has seen a shift over the last decade, with unpaid care now a significant part of local life. While 15.9% of people volunteer, others spend much more time on home-based duties than people in most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
A little more than 15.9% of residents volunteer, which is a little above the 14.1% seen across both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common here, as 28.8% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly and 15.6% provide unpaid care, both well above national figures. In contrast, the 14.9% of people caring for children unpaid is far below the Australian average of 26.3%.
15.6% ▲ +32.2%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 15.4%
- 2021: 15.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
14.9% ▼ -19.3%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.5%
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 14.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
28.8% ▼ -8.4%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.4%
- 2016: 29.4%
- 2021: 28.8%
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.
About 2.1% of the population served in the Defence Force, a figure that is about the same as the national rate of 2.8%.
2.1%
Lower than 58% 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 Maroondan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31774/maroondan/topic/community