17.0% ▼ -13.8%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.7%
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 17.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Salisbury · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Salisbury
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement in Salisbury (Qld) has seen steady patterns in recent years, with a strong focus on family. Around 30.1% of people provide unpaid childcare, a figure well above the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates are around the middle for similar areas, with 17% of residents giving their time, which is a little above the figures for Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 30.1% of people care for children unpaid—which is well above the national figure—those doing 15 or more hours of housework or providing other unpaid care are lower than most areas.
11.5% ▲ +4.3%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.0%
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.1% ▲ +11.0%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.1%
- 2016: 28.6%
- 2021: 30.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.3% ▲ +4.9%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.3%
- 2016: 18.8%
- 2021: 20.3%
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, which is about the same as the national figure and a little below the Queensland average.
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 Salisbury [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32504/salisbury/topic/community