12.0% ▼ -12.8%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.8%
- 2016: 15.9%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Menzies · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Menzies
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Menzies involves less unpaid work and volunteering than in other parts of the country. While 3.3% of residents have served in the Defence Force, only 12% of the community spend their spare time volunteering, which is much lower than most areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 12% of people in Menzies volunteer, a figure that is a little below the Queensland and national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is less common here, with only 13.2% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework, which is well below the national figure of 20.7%. This is consistent with the area having much lower rates of people providing unpaid care at 8.6%.
8.6% ▲ +51.6%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 8.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.8% ▼ -1.6%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.2%
- 2016: 24.4%
- 2021: 23.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
13.2% ▼ -10.8%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.8%
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 13.2%
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.
A higher than usual proportion of the community has served in the Defence Force, with 3.3% of residents having done so.
3.3%
Higher than 60% 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 Menzies [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31805/menzies/topic/community