22.7% ▼ -17.3%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.5%
- 2016: 31.6%
- 2021: 22.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mitchell · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mitchell
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Mitchell volunteer their time, which is well above the national figure. This high level of community spirit defines local life, even though few residents have served in the Defence Force.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 22.7% of people helping out. This is 8.6 percentage points higher than the Queensland and Australian averages.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 12.3% of people provide unpaid care, which is about the same as the national figure, only 22.5% care for children unpaid. This is well below the 26.3% seen across Australia.
12.3% ▲ +21.3%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 12.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.5% ▼ -18.9%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.7%
- 2016: 25.4%
- 2021: 22.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.2% ▼ -20.2%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.4%
- 2016: 21.7%
- 2021: 20.2%
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.
Defence service is less common in Mitchell than in most similar areas, with 1.9% of people having served in the Defence Force.
1.9%
Lower 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 Mitchell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31865/mitchell/topic/community