11.3% ▼ -23.6%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.8%
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 11.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Gold Coast - Tweed Heads (Gold Coast Part) · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Gold Coast - Tweed Heads (Gold Coast Part)
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Volunteer rates have dropped by 3.5 percentage points since 2011 in Gold Coast - Tweed Heads (Gold Coast Part). Only 11.3% of people now volunteer, which is much lower than in most other similar areas. This reflects a broader decline in unpaid community work across the region.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Just 11.3% of people volunteer here, a figure that is a little below the Queensland and national rates of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 26.1% of people provide unpaid childcare, which is higher than most areas, only 10.5% provide other types of unpaid care. The proportion of people doing 15 or more hours of unpaid housework is much lower than most areas at 19.1%.
10.5% ▲ +11.8%
Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.1% ▼ -3.7%
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.0%
- 2016: 27.4%
- 2021: 26.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.1% ▼ -6.0%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.3%
- 2016: 18.7%
- 2021: 19.1%
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.
Defence service is less common here than in most areas, with 2.7% of people having served in the Defence Force.
2.7%
Lower than 73% of urban centre 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 Gold Coast - Tweed Heads (Gold Coast Part) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL302001/gold-coast-tweed-heads/topic/community