10.6% ▼ -18.6%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 14.2%
- 2021: 10.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Pacific Pines · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Pacific Pines
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A much higher share of people provide unpaid childcare in Pacific Pines than the national figure, though other forms of community work are less common. While roughly 35% of the population cares for children without pay, the area has a notably low rate of general volunteering.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 10.6% of residents volunteer their time, which is well below the 14.1% seen across Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care for children is very common here at 34.9%, which is well above the national figure of 26.3%. In contrast, 10.4% of people provide other types of unpaid care, a figure slightly below the national average.
10.4% ▲ +32.0%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.9%
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 10.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
34.9% ▼ -10.9%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.1%
- 2016: 38.2%
- 2021: 34.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.3% ▼ -6.5%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.7%
- 2016: 20.2%
- 2021: 20.3%
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.
About 2.4% of the community has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the Australian average of 2.8%.
2.4%
Lower than 54% 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 Pines [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32248/pacific-pines/topic/community