12.5% —
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 18.4%
- 2021: 12.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Pilerwa · Suburb / Locality
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Fewer people in Pilerwa engage in unpaid work and volunteering compared to most similar areas. While 15% of residents provide unpaid care, the rate of people caring for children is among the lowest recorded for this type of area.
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is less common here than in most other areas, with 12.5% of people helping out, which is a little below the Queensland and national figures.
12.5% —
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for others is more frequent than usual at 15.0%, yet the 12.5% of people caring for children is far below the national figure of 26.3%. Similarly, 17.5% of residents do 15 or more hours of housework, which is well below the national average.
15.0% —
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
12.5% —
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
17.5% —
Lower than 84% 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.
People who served in the Australian Defence Force.
No one in the community has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is lower than most areas and 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).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Community Participation in Pilerwa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32315/pilerwa/topic/community