35.5% —
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 17.8%
- 2021: 35.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mount Wyatt · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mount Wyatt
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over a third of residents in Mount Wyatt give their time to volunteering, a rate far above the national figure. This high level of community spirit defines daily life here, though few residents have a history of military service.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates are among the highest for similar areas, with 35.5% of people helping out, which is 21 percentage points higher than both the Queensland and Australian figures.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 25.8% of people provide unpaid childcare—similar to the national figure—about 25.8% do over 15 hours of housework weekly, which is well above the 20.7% seen across Australia. Conversely, those providing other forms of unpaid care are much lower than most areas at 9.7%.
9.7% —
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.8% —
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 25.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.8% —
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.6%
- 2021: 25.8%
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% for Queensland and a little below the 2.8% national average.
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 Wyatt [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32039/mount-wyatt/topic/community