16.0% ▼ -24.1%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.1%
- 2016: 19.7%
- 2021: 16.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Victoria Plains · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Victoria Plains
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than 30% of people in Victoria Plains provide unpaid child care, making it a place where family duties play a huge role in daily life. While volunteering is slightly lower than in many other areas, the community sees a high level of unpaid work and caregiving compared to the rest of the state.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16% of the population volunteer, which is a little above the 14.1% seen across Queensland and Australia, though this is lower than in most similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common here; 27.1% of people do 15 or more hours of housework and 13.8% provide unpaid care, both well above the national figure. This is consistent with the 30.9% of residents who care for children unpaid, a rate well above the state average.
13.8% ▲ +36.4%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.1%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 13.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.9% ▼ -16.1%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.8%
- 2016: 30.5%
- 2021: 30.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.1% ▲ +0.9%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.9%
- 2016: 26.1%
- 2021: 27.1%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 2.2% of the population, which is about the same as the national figure and around the middle for similar areas.
2.2%
Lower than 57% 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 Victoria Plains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32941/victoria-plains/topic/community