17.1% ▼ -6.3%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.2%
- 2016: 25.4%
- 2021: 17.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Miles End · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Miles End
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people provide unpaid childcare in Miles End than in other parts of the country. This stands out as the main story for the area, where 34.1% of residents perform these duties, well above the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.1% of people in Miles End 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.
The rate of people caring for children unpaid is much higher than most areas at 34.1%. In contrast, people providing other unpaid care (8.8%) and those doing 15 or more hours of housework (19.5%) are both lower than the national figures.
8.8% ▲ +91.0%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 10.4%
- 2021: 8.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
34.1% ▲ +50.5%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.7%
- 2016: 30.6%
- 2021: 34.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.5% ▲ +20.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.2%
- 2016: 22.3%
- 2021: 19.5%
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.
People who have served in the Defence Force make up 3.0% of the population, which is about the same as the figures for Queensland and Australia.
3.0%
Higher than 55% 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 Miles End [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31834/miles-end/topic/community