13.1% ▼ -29.6%
Lower than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 18.6%
- 2016: 24.7%
- 2021: 13.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Middlemount · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Middlemount
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Roughly 23% of people in Middlemount provide unpaid childcare, which is the most common form of community contribution here. However, overall engagement in unpaid work and volunteering has dropped since 2011. The area now sees much lower levels of community participation compared to most other similar places.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 13.1% of residents volunteer, which is much lower than most areas and slightly below the national figure of 14.1%. This is a notable drop from 2011, when 18.6% of people volunteered.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is far less common here than in the rest of the state. Only 3.5% of people provide unpaid care and 13.1% do 15 or more hours of housework, both of which are among the lowest rates for similar areas.
3.5% ▼ -62.3%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.3%
- 2016: 9.9%
- 2021: 3.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.0% ▼ -44.2%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 41.3%
- 2016: 22.6%
- 2021: 23.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
13.1% ▼ -57.4%
Lower than 92% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 30.8%
- 2016: 18.0%
- 2021: 13.1%
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 also uncommon in Middlemount, where 2.2% of people have served. This is much lower than most similar areas and a little below the Queensland figure of 3.9%.
2.2%
Lower than 83% 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 Middlemount [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315061/middlemount/topic/community