14.3% ▼ -24.6%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.0%
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Smithfield · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Smithfield
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A higher than usual share of people in Smithfield have served in the Defence Force, though other forms of community effort vary. While 4.1% of residents are veterans, the area shows a mixed pattern of unpaid care and volunteering compared to other regions.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.3% of people here volunteer, which is lower than most similar areas but roughly the same as the Queensland and national figures.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care for children is more common here than in most areas, with 27.5% of people doing so. However, the shares of people providing general unpaid care (10.0%) or doing 15 or more hours of housework (18.8%) are both much lower than in most areas.
10.0% ▲ +5.4%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.5%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.5% ▲ +1.1%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.2%
- 2016: 28.3%
- 2021: 27.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.8% ▼ -14.5%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.0%
- 2016: 19.3%
- 2021: 18.8%
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 more common in Smithfield than in most similar areas. At 4.1%, this is a little above the Australian figure of 2.8%.
4.1%
Higher than 72% 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 Smithfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32579/smithfield/topic/community