17.1% —
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 50.0%
- 2021: 17.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Maryvale · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Maryvale
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A slightly higher than average 17.1% of people in Maryvale volunteer their time. This level of community spirit stands out against a local profile where unpaid care and housework are much less common than across the rest of the state.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.1% of residents volunteer, which is a little above the 14.1% figure seen across both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very rare here; only 9.8% of people care for children unpaid and 12.2% do 15 or more hours of housework, both figures being well below the state and national averages. No one in the area provides other types of unpaid care.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
9.8% —
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
12.2% —
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 29.2%
- 2021: 12.2%
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 the community has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is well below the Queensland average 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 Maryvale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31781/maryvale/topic/community