13.6% —
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 26.2%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Silverleaf · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Silverleaf
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A much higher share of people serve others in Silverleaf, particularly through military service. While few residents perform heavy housework or child care, a significant number of people provide other types of unpaid care.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 13.6% of people here volunteer, which is about the same as the Queensland and national figures.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for others is well above the national figure at 16.9%, though those caring for children (22%) and doing 15 or more hours of housework (15.3%) are both well below the figures for Queensland and Australia.
16.9% —
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 16.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.0% —
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 28.6%
- 2021: 22.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
15.3% —
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 15.3%
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.
Military service is very common here; 12.1% of people have served in the Defence Force, which is well above the national figure of 2.8%.
12.1%
Higher than 99% 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 Silverleaf [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32569/silverleaf/topic/community