20.1% ▼ -7.3%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.7%
- 2016: 21.3%
- 2021: 20.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Speewah · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Speewah
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A much higher share of residents in Speewah contribute their time to others compared to the national average. While 20.1% of people volunteer, there is also a strong tendency for residents to provide unpaid care and household support. This creates a community where unpaid work is far more common than in most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 20.1% of people helping out. This is well above the 14.1% figure seen across both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very frequent, as 30.8% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, far above the national figure of 20.7%. While 15.7% provide unpaid care—well above the national 11.9%—the share of people caring for children unpaid is well below the 26.3% Australian average.
15.7% ▲ +31.6%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 11.2%
- 2021: 15.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.7% ▼ -14.7%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.4%
- 2016: 23.8%
- 2021: 21.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.8% ▼ -5.1%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.4%
- 2016: 31.2%
- 2021: 30.8%
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 much more common here than in most areas, with 4.7% of the population having served. This is a little above the Australian average of 2.8% and about the same as Queensland's 3.9%.
4.7%
Higher than 78% 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 Speewah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32615/speewah/topic/community