16.7% —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Nicholson · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Nicholson
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Few residents in Nicholson take on unpaid care roles, creating a distinct community profile where daily life involves less domestic care than in most other areas. While 16.7% of the population volunteers, the area sees almost no activity in unpaid childcare or elderly care.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.7% of people in Nicholson volunteer, which is a little above the 14.1% figure seen across both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very rare here, with 0.0% of people caring for children or providing general unpaid care. This is far below the national figures, and the 12.5% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework is also well below the Australian average of 20.7%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% 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.
Defence service
People who served in the Australian Defence Force.
No one in the community has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is well below the Queensland rate of 3.9%.
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 Nicholson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32141/nicholson/topic/community