20.4% ▼ -21.3%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.0%
- 2016: 29.0%
- 2021: 20.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Ramsay · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Ramsay
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a third of people in Ramsay provide unpaid childcare, making this the most common form of community contribution. The area is defined by high levels of unpaid work and volunteering, which both sit well above state and national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 20.4% of residents giving their time, which is well above the 14.1% seen across Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very high in Ramsay, where 34.4% care for children and 29.7% do more than 15 hours of housework weekly, both far exceeding national figures. In contrast, those providing other types of unpaid care are much lower than most areas at 7.9%.
7.9% ▼ -32.8%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 13.4%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
34.4% ▲ +2.3%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.6%
- 2016: 32.3%
- 2021: 34.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
29.7% ▼ -16.5%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.6%
- 2016: 30.9%
- 2021: 29.7%
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 2.9% of the population has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is about the same as the national average of 2.8%.
2.9%
Higher than 53% 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 Ramsay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32386/ramsay/topic/community