22.2% ▼ -9.0%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.4%
- 2016: 35.4%
- 2021: 22.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mount Mort · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mount Mort
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Higher rates of volunteering than most similar areas define the community spirit in Mount Mort. About 22.2% of residents give their time to help others, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 22.2% of people helping out, a figure that sits well above both the Queensland and Australian averages of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is much lower than most areas at 19.4%, while those providing general unpaid care are also a little below the national figure at 9.7%. However, 25% of people do 15 or more hours of housework, which is well above the 20.7% seen across Australia.
9.7% ▼ -32.6%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 12.7%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.4% ▼ -29.5%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.6%
- 2016: 20.3%
- 2021: 19.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.0% ▼ -21.7%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.9%
- 2016: 27.8%
- 2021: 25.0%
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.
A higher share of people have served in the Defence Force compared to similar areas, with 3.9% of residents having served. This is about the same as the Queensland average and a little above the Australian figure of 2.8%.
3.9%
Higher than 70% 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 Mort [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32003/mount-mort/topic/community