18.5% ▼ -21.8%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.6%
- 2016: 24.3%
- 2021: 18.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
West End · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in West End
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Volunteer rates have grown to 18.5% in West End, putting the area well above both the state and national figures. This high level of community involvement sits alongside a much lower tendency for residents to provide unpaid care compared to other Australian suburbs.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 18.5% of people volunteer here, which is well above the 14.1% recorded for Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Residents are much less likely to provide unpaid care than people in most other areas. This is seen in the 20.3% of people caring for children and the 14.8% doing heavy housework, both of which are well below the national figures.
8.7% ▲ +10.6%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.9%
- 2016: 9.0%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.3% ▲ +8.6%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.7%
- 2016: 19.9%
- 2021: 20.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
14.8% ▲ +13.1%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 14.8%
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 common for a city area, with 2.1% of people having served. This is a little below the Queensland figure of 3.9% and about the same as the national average.
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 West End [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33033/west-end/topic/community