16.7% —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Nearum · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Nearum
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people provide unpaid care in Nearum than in most similar areas. This community shows a strong commitment to supporting others, with a quarter of residents providing unpaid care and a high proportion looking after children.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.7% of residents volunteer their time, which is a little above the Queensland and national figures of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care is very common here, with 25% of people doing so—far above the national figure of 11.9%. This is driven by the 33.3% of residents who care for children unpaid, a rate well above the Australian average of 26.3%, though only 12.5% do 15 or more hours of housework.
25.0% —
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
33.3% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
12.5% —
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did 15 hours or more of unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census.
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 Nearum [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32111/nearum/topic/community