5.8% ▼ -73.1%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.6%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 5.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mount Pelion · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mount Pelion
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A striking gap exists between Mount Pelion and the rest of the country in community engagement, with only 5.8% of people volunteering. This is well below the 14.1% seen across Queensland and Australia. The area also shows much lower rates of unpaid caregiving compared to national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 5.8% of residents volunteer, which is among the lowest rates for areas of this type and well below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is far below the national average at 10.5%. While 11.6% of people provide general unpaid care, this is about the same as the 11.9% seen across Australia.
11.6% ▲ +117.4%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
10.5% ▼ -61.4%
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.1%
- 2016: 21.2%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.8% ▼ -40.9%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.5%
- 2016: 27.9%
- 2021: 19.8%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is well below the 3.9% seen in Queensland.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Pelion [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32011/mount-pelion/topic/community