20.1% ▼ -15.9%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.9%
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 20.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mount Tyson · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mount Tyson
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Well above the national figure, 20.1% of people in Mount Tyson volunteer their time. This level of community involvement is higher than most similar areas and significantly exceeds the Queensland average. Residents here are more likely to contribute their time to others than people across the rest of the state.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About one in five people volunteer in Mount Tyson, which is 6 percentage points higher than the 14.1% seen across Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Housework and childcare are common here, with 28.5% of people doing 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly, well above the national figure of 20.7%. While 29% provide unpaid childcare, only 10.7% provide general unpaid care, which is a little below the Australian average.
10.7% ▲ +12.9%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.5%
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
29.0% ▼ -3.6%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.1%
- 2016: 27.1%
- 2021: 29.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
28.5% ▲ +2.2%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.9%
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 28.5%
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 small number of residents have served in the Defence Force, at 1.9%, which is a little below the Queensland figure of 3.9%.
1.9%
Lower 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 Tyson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32033/mount-tyson/topic/community