12.7% ▼ -29.0%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.9%
- 2016: 18.8%
- 2021: 12.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Minden · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Minden
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people are now taking on unpaid care roles in Minden than in previous years. This is a community where 32% of people provide unpaid childcare, which is well above the national figure. While formal volunteering is lower than usual, there is a very high rate of people serving in the Defence Force.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 12.7% of residents volunteer, which is much lower than most similar areas and a little below the Queensland figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common here, with 30.1% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly. This is well above the national figure of 20.7%, alongside a high 15% of residents providing unpaid care for others.
15.0% ▲ +6.2%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 16.0%
- 2021: 15.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
32.0% ▼ -7.5%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.6%
- 2016: 34.3%
- 2021: 32.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.1% ▼ -3.0%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.1%
- 2016: 27.8%
- 2021: 30.1%
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.
Defence service is far more common in Minden than elsewhere, with 7.6% of people having served. This is well above the national figure of 2.8% and among the highest rates for similar areas.
7.6%
Higher than 90% 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 Minden [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31851/minden/topic/community