20.0% ▲ +77.1%
Higher than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.3%
- 2016: 27.7%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Capella · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Capella
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much higher volunteer rates than most similar areas define Capella, where 20% of people give their time to others. This strong spirit of helping out is seen across the community, and the number of volunteers has risen by 8.7 percentage points since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
One in five people in Capella volunteers, a figure that is well above the 14.1% seen across both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
A high 30.8% of residents provide unpaid childcare, which is well above the national figure of 26.3%. While 23.7% do significant housework, those providing other types of unpaid care are few at 7.8%, which is well below the state and national rates.
7.8% ▼ -50.8%
Lower than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.8%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.8% ▲ +19.3%
Higher than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.8%
- 2016: 33.2%
- 2021: 30.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.7% ▼ -11.6%
Lower than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.8%
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 23.7%
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 have served in the Defence Force make up 2.6% of the population, which is much lower than most similar areas.
2.6%
Lower than 74% 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 Capella [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321028/capella/topic/community