20.0% —
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Swanfels · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Swanfels
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A much higher share of people in Swanfels contribute to their community compared to most similar areas. This is seen in the high number of locals who volunteer and those who have served in the Defence Force. While unpaid care for children is rare here, many residents provide other types of unpaid support.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
One in five people in Swanfels volunteer, which is well above the 14.1% figure seen across both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is much lower than most areas at 19.1%, but providing other unpaid care is much higher than usual at 17.4%. Additionally, 25.2% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, which is well above the national figure of 20.7%.
17.4% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.1% —
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.1%
- 2021: 19.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.2% —
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 30.6%
- 2021: 25.2%
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 very common here, with 7.1% of people having served—a figure well above the 3.9% for Queensland and 2.8% for Australia.
7.1%
Higher than 89% 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 Swanfels [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32708/swanfels/topic/community