17.9% —
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.9%
- 2021: 17.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Windermere · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Windermere
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people than usual contribute their time to others in Windermere. This is especially true for home life, where 30.5% of residents provide unpaid childcare, a figure well above the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.9% of people here volunteer, which is well above the 14.1% seen across Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Care at home is common, with 27.8% of residents doing 15 or more hours of unpaid housework—well above the national figure of 20.7%. However, 10.6% of people provide other unpaid care, which is a little below the Australian average.
10.6% —
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 10.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.5% —
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 29.0%
- 2021: 30.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.8% —
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 25.4%
- 2021: 27.8%
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 the area, with 2.6% of residents having served, which is about the same as the national figure.
2.6%
Higher than 50% 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 Windermere [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33093/windermere/topic/community