27.6% ▼ -18.1%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.7%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 27.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Red Hill · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Red Hill
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people in Red Hill give their time to others than in most similar areas. Over a quarter of residents volunteer, and there are high rates of unpaid care and housework across the community.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 27.6% of people helping out, which is far above the 14.1% figure for both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is a major part of life in Red Hill, where 36.2% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly. This is far above the national figure of 20.7%, alongside higher-than-usual rates of people caring for children (30.2%) and providing other unpaid care (19.0%).
19.0% ▲ +22.4%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.5%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 19.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.2% ▼ -2.7%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.0%
- 2016: 20.5%
- 2021: 30.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
36.2% ▲ +9.7%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.0%
- 2016: 20.5%
- 2021: 36.2%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 2.6% of the population, which is about the same as the Australian average of 2.8%.
2.6%
Lower than 52% 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 Red Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32401/red-hill/topic/community