26.2% ▼ -18.3%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.1%
- 2016: 37.4%
- 2021: 26.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Springsure · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Springsure
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong spirit of helping out defines daily life in Springsure, where 26.2% of people volunteer. This is far above the national figure of 14.1%, making it a place where residents are much more likely to give their time to the community than people in most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 26.2% of the population pitching in, which is 12 percentage points higher than both the Queensland and Australian figures.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care roles are less common than in most areas, with 10.5% providing care and 24.8% looking after children, both of which are a little below the national figures.
10.5% ▲ +29.7%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.8% ▼ -18.6%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.5%
- 2016: 27.3%
- 2021: 24.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.7% ▼ -18.6%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.7%
- 2016: 23.2%
- 2021: 21.7%
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 2.1% of residents have served in the Defence Force, a figure that is around the middle for similar areas and a little below the Queensland rate of 3.9%.
2.1%
Lower than 58% 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 Springsure [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32633/springsure/topic/community