23.8% ▼ -18.5%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.2%
- 2016: 33.0%
- 2021: 23.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mount Molloy · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mount Molloy
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Giving their time to others is a big part of life in Mount Molloy, where nearly 24% of people volunteer. This is well above both the state and national figures. It is a community where locals are very active in helping out, despite a lower rate of unpaid childcare compared to most areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 23.8% of residents volunteer, which is higher than most areas and well above the 14.1% recorded for Queensland and Australia.
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 and 21.6% caring for children, both of which are well below the national average. However, 24.2% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, which is well above the Queensland figure of 20.7%.
8.7% ▼ -34.3%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.2%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.6% ▼ -7.2%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.3%
- 2016: 17.7%
- 2021: 21.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.2% ▼ -12.6%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.7%
- 2016: 27.9%
- 2021: 24.2%
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.
A much higher proportion of people here have served in the Defence Force than in most other areas, with 5.2% of the population having served.
5.2%
Higher than 82% 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 Molloy [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32000/mount-molloy/topic/community