13.8% ▼ -29.2%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.5%
- 2016: 19.3%
- 2021: 13.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
South Brisbane · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in South Brisbane
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far fewer people provide unpaid care in South Brisbane than in other parts of the country. Only 5.7% of residents provide unpaid care, which is well below the national figure. This suggests a community where very few people are balancing the demands of caring for others with their daily lives.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 13.8% of people here volunteer, a figure that is about the same as the Queensland and Australian averages.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much lower than most areas, with only 12.5% of people caring for children and 10.4% doing 15 or more hours of housework. Both figures are far below the national average.
5.7% ▲ +12.2%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
12.5% ▼ -3.9%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 12.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
10.4% ▲ +0.4%
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 10.4%
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 little over 2% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is around the middle for this level of area.
2.2%
Lower than 57% 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 South Brisbane [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32587/south-brisbane/topic/community