21.5% ▼ -11.1%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.2%
- 2016: 25.4%
- 2021: 21.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mount Glorious · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mount Glorious
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than 31% of people in Mount Glorious spend 15 or more hours a week on unpaid housework, a figure far above the national average. This is a community with high levels of unpaid work and a strong commitment to helping others.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 21.5% of residents giving their time. This is well above the 14.1% seen across both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While far fewer people care for children unpaid compared to the state average, the area has a much higher rate of people providing general unpaid care (17.8%) and performing heavy housework.
17.8% ▲ +34.8%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.2%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 17.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
18.8% ▼ -27.9%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.1%
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 18.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
31.9% ▼ -6.7%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.2%
- 2016: 26.5%
- 2021: 31.9%
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.
A high proportion of the community has served in the Defence Force, with 7.3% of residents having done so. This is well above the national figure of 2.8%.
7.3%
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 Mount Glorious [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31967/mount-glorious/topic/community