7.7% ▼ -36.7%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.2%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 7.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Parklands · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Parklands
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A much lower rate of volunteering marks Parklands, where only 7.7% of people give their time to causes. While the community shows a high level of unpaid care, it falls well behind the state and national averages for formal volunteer work.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 7.7% of residents volunteer, which is among the lowest for similar areas and well below the Queensland and national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 19.6% of people providing care, a figure well above the national level of 11.9%. Meanwhile, 25% of people care for children unpaid, and 22.6% do 15 or more hours of housework a week, which is a little above the national figure.
19.6% ▲ +31.9%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.9%
- 2016: 17.7%
- 2021: 19.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.0% ▼ -17.1%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.2%
- 2016: 32.0%
- 2021: 25.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.6% ▼ -21.3%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.7%
- 2016: 25.1%
- 2021: 22.6%
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 2.3% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is around the middle for its level and about the same as the national figure of 2.8%.
2.3%
Lower than 56% 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 Parklands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32275/parklands/topic/community