15.0% ▼ -22.8%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.4%
- 2016: 18.6%
- 2021: 15.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Scarborough · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Scarborough
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people have served in the Defence Force in Scarborough than in most similar areas. While 5.3% of residents are veterans, other forms of community involvement, like volunteering and unpaid childcare, are generally lower than in other parts of the region.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 15.0% of people here volunteer, which is lower than most areas, though this is about the same as the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is much lower here than in Queensland and Australia, at 22.8%. However, more people do 15 or more hours of housework (22.6%) or provide some form of unpaid care (13.6%) compared to the state and national figures.
13.6% ▲ +19.9%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.3%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.8% ▼ -6.8%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.4%
- 2016: 25.3%
- 2021: 22.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.6% ▼ -0.9%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.8%
- 2016: 22.8%
- 2021: 22.6%
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.
A much higher proportion of residents have served in the Defence Force compared to similar areas, with 5.3% of the population being veterans.
5.3%
Higher than 83% 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 Scarborough [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32524/scarborough/topic/community