10.8% ▼ -29.4%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.2%
- 2016: 13.9%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Southport · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Southport
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Fewer people in Southport spend their spare time on unpaid work compared to other regions. Only 10.8% of residents volunteer, and the area has a much lower rate of unpaid care and housework than the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is uncommon here, with just 10.8% of people helping out. This is well below the 14.1% figure seen across both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is far less frequent in Southport, where only 16.2% of people care for children and 8.7% provide general unpaid care. Similarly, the 14.1% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework is well below the national figure of 20.7%.
8.7% ▲ +1.6%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
16.2% ▼ -12.9%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.6%
- 2016: 18.3%
- 2021: 16.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
14.1% ▼ -7.2%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.2%
- 2016: 13.8%
- 2021: 14.1%
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.
About 2.4% of the population has served in the Defence Force. This is about the same as the Australian average of 2.8%, though a little below the Queensland figure of 3.9%.
2.4%
Lower than 54% 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 Southport [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32611/southport/topic/community