13.5% ▼ -13.1%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.5%
- 2016: 20.7%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mount Carbine · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mount Carbine
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Few things have shifted in how people contribute to the community in Mount Carbine over the last decade. The area is sparsely populated and shows very low levels of unpaid care, though it has a notably high number of Defence Force veterans.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Around 13.5% of people here volunteer, which is about the same as the figures for Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very uncommon here, with only 4.5% of people caring for children or providing other unpaid care, figures that are well below the national average. Similarly, 18.0% of residents do 15 or more hours of housework a week, which is much lower than most areas.
4.5% ▼ -28.3%
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 4.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
4.5% ▼ -70.6%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.3%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 4.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.0% ▼ -17.8%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.9%
- 2016: 30.4%
- 2021: 18.0%
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 common in Mount Carbine, where 6.7% of people have served. This is well above the Australian figure of 2.8% and much higher than in most similar areas.
6.7%
Higher than 88% 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 Mount Carbine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31945/mount-carbine/topic/community