12.8% ▼ -14.5%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.0%
- 2016: 16.2%
- 2021: 12.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Pacific Paradise · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Pacific Paradise
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community engagement in Pacific Paradise has shifted since 2011, though it now sees much lower levels of volunteering than most similar areas. Only 12.8% of residents volunteer their time, which is a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Just 12.8% of people here volunteer, a figure that is much lower than most similar areas and slightly below the Queensland average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is less common here than elsewhere, with 21.3% of residents providing it, well below the national figure of 26.3%. Meanwhile, 12.0% of people provide some form of unpaid care, which is about the same as the Australian average.
12.0% ▲ +14.5%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.5%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.3% ▼ -33.6%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.1%
- 2016: 29.0%
- 2021: 21.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.4% ▼ -15.9%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.2%
- 2016: 20.3%
- 2021: 20.4%
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.
Defence service is more common in Pacific Paradise than in most areas, with 3.6% of residents having served. This is about the same as the Queensland rate of 3.9%.
3.6%
Higher than 66% 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 Pacific Paradise [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32247/pacific-paradise/topic/community