21.6% ▼ -5.4%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.9%
- 2016: 30.3%
- 2021: 21.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Surat · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Surat
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over 21% of people in Surat volunteer their time, a figure that is well above both the state and national averages. This high level of community involvement marks the area as a place where residents are much more likely to give their time than people in most other similar areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 21.6% of residents volunteer, which is 7.5 percentage points higher than the Queensland and Australian figures of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is common here at 25.7%, which is about the same as the rest of the country. However, the proportion of people providing other unpaid care is lower than in most similar areas.
11.9% ▲ +82.3%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.5%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 11.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.7% ▲ +52.9%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.8%
- 2016: 21.1%
- 2021: 25.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.3% ▲ +16.6%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.1%
- 2016: 21.7%
- 2021: 22.3%
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 higher share of residents have served in the Defence Force compared to most areas, with 3.8% of the population having served, which is a little above the Australian figure of 2.8%.
3.8%
Higher than 69% 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).
More for Surat
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Community Participation in Surat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32701/surat/topic/community