16.1% ▼ -16.4%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.2%
- 2016: 22.8%
- 2021: 16.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mount Pleasant · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mount Pleasant
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a quarter of residents in Mount Pleasant care for children without pay. This is the most common form of community contribution in the area, with 28.1% of people providing this unpaid support.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.1% of people here volunteer, which is a little above the figures for Queensland and Australia, though this is lower than in most similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is more common here than in most areas at 28.1%. Other types of help are less frequent, with 11.9% providing general unpaid care and 21.6% doing 15 or more hours of housework per week.
11.9% ▲ +13.6%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.5%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 11.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
28.1% ▼ -6.6%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.1%
- 2016: 27.8%
- 2021: 28.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.6% ▼ -15.8%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.6%
- 2016: 25.1%
- 2021: 21.6%
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 here have served in the Defence Force compared to most similar areas, with 3.3% of residents having served.
3.3%
Higher than 60% 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 Pleasant [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32014/mount-pleasant/topic/community