22.5% ▼ -1.5%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.9%
- 2016: 38.5%
- 2021: 22.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Seventeen Seventy · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Seventeen Seventy
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Seventeen Seventy volunteer their time, a figure well above the national average. This community shows a strong commitment to unpaid work, though it has far fewer people caring for children than typical Australian areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 22.5% of residents helping out, which is well above the 14.1% figure seen across both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While only 6.3% of people provide unpaid care—well below the national figure—about 27% do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly. This is well above the 20.7% seen nationally. Far fewer people care for children unpaid (10.8%) compared to the 26.3% across Australia.
6.3% ▼ -27.5%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 13.8%
- 2021: 6.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
10.8% ▼ -24.3%
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.0% ▼ -15.2%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.9%
- 2016: 36.9%
- 2021: 27.0%
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 much more common here than in most areas, with 6.3% of residents having served, which is well above the Australian figure of 2.8%.
6.3%
Higher than 87% 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 Seventeen Seventy [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32540/seventeen-seventy/topic/community