21.4% ▼ -37.8%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.4%
- 2016: 27.8%
- 2021: 21.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Richmond · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Richmond
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people give their time to others in Richmond than in most similar areas. About 21.4% of residents volunteer, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. This strong spirit of volunteering stands out against a lower tendency for unpaid caregiving in the community.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates in Richmond are very high, with 21.4% of people pitching in, which is 7.3 percentage points higher than the figures for Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is less common here than in most areas; only 9.1% of people provide unpaid care, and 22.5% care for children unpaid, which is well below the national figure of 26.3%.
9.1% ▼ -7.9%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.8%
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 9.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.5% ▼ -10.2%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.1%
- 2016: 24.0%
- 2021: 22.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.2% ▼ -0.7%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.4%
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 21.2%
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.
Defence service is less common than in most similar areas, with 2.0% of the population having served, a little below the Queensland rate of 3.9%.
2.0%
Lower than 59% 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 Richmond [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32425/richmond/topic/community