13.0% —
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Maxwelton · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Maxwelton
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Zero percent of people in Maxwelton provide unpaid care, making it one of the lowest areas in the country for this activity. This sparsely populated locality shows very low levels of community and domestic work compared to the rest of the state. Only 13% of residents volunteer their time.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 13% of people here are volunteers, which is much lower than most similar areas and a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very rare here, with 0% of residents doing 15 or more hours of housework or providing general unpaid care. This is far below the Queensland figure of 11.5% for care providers; similarly, only 13% care for children unpaid, which is far below the national average.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
13.0% —
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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 residents have served in the Defence Force, a figure that is lower than most areas and 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 Maxwelton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31786/maxwelton/topic/community