41.7% —
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 36.4%
- 2021: 41.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Upper Wheatvale · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Upper Wheatvale
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than four in ten people volunteer in Upper Wheatvale, a rate that is far above the national figure. This makes the area one of the highest for community involvement among similar places, though few residents provide unpaid care for others.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 41.7% of people giving their time. This is far above the 14.1% seen across both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 33.3% of people spend 15 or more hours a week on unpaid housework, which is far above the national figure of 20.7%, very few provide other types of care. Only 11.1% care for children unpaid, and no one reports providing general unpaid care.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.4%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
11.1% —
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.5%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
33.3% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 22.7%
- 2021: 33.3%
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 high number of residents have a history of military service. Those who served in the Defence Force make up 8.1% of the population, which is well above the Australian figure of 2.8%.
8.1%
Higher than 91% 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 Upper Wheatvale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32920/upper-wheatvale/topic/community