14.1% ▼ -28.8%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.8%
- 2016: 19.2%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Morningside · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Morningside
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Morningside involves less unpaid home and care work than in many other areas. While volunteering rates are typical for the country, the community is marked by a much lower proportion of people spending significant time on housework.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.1% of people in Morningside volunteer, a figure that is lower than most similar areas but about the same as the Queensland and Australian averages.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is less common here, with only 8.7% of people providing unpaid care, well below the national figure of 11.9%. This is consistent with the fact that only 15.7% of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, which is well below both the state and national rates of 20.7%.
8.7% ▲ +20.9%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.2%
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.4% ▲ +8.9%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.4%
- 2016: 25.5%
- 2021: 25.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
15.7% ▲ +6.1%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.8%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 15.7%
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.
Around 2.7% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the Australian average of 2.8%.
2.7%
Higher than 50% 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 Morningside [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31922/morningside/topic/community