24.5% —
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 22.7%
- 2021: 24.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Middlebrook · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Middlebrook
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly a quarter of people in Middlebrook volunteer, which is far above the national figure. This high level of community spirit is reflected in the way residents support each other through unpaid work and care.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 24.5% of the population are volunteers, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas and 10 percentage points above the Queensland and national averages.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very common here; 26.5% of people provide unpaid care and 38.8% do over 15 hours of housework weekly, both of which are far above the national figures. This contrasts with childcare, where 26.5% of people provide unpaid care, about the same as the rest of the country.
26.5% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 26.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.5% —
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 22.7%
- 2021: 26.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
38.8% —
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 31.8%
- 2021: 38.8%
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.
No one in Middlebrook has served in the Defence Force, which is well below the Queensland rate of 3.9% and a little below the national figure.
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 Middlebrook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31824/middlebrook/topic/community