20.6% ▼ -18.8%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.4%
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 20.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Kiels Mountain · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Kiels Mountain
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people in Kiels Mountain give their time to others than in most similar areas. While volunteer rates have dipped since 2011, 20.6% of residents still volunteer, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. This spirit of help extends into the home, where unpaid care and housework are much more common than elsewhere.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About one in five people (20.6%) here volunteer, a figure well above the Queensland and Australian average of 14.1%. However, this is lower than it was in 2011, when 25.4% of the community volunteered.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common here, with 33.4% of people caring for children and 29.8% doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, both well above national figures. Unpaid care for others is also more frequent than usual at 14.7%, with all three areas seeing an increase since 2011.
14.7% ▲ +23.4%
Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
33.4% ▲ +60.9%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.7%
- 2016: 18.2%
- 2021: 33.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
29.8% ▲ +21.4%
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 24.6%
- 2016: 26.2%
- 2021: 29.8%
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 at a rate of 3.2%, which is about the same as the figures for both Queensland and Australia.
3.2%
Lower than 60% 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 Kiels Mountain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321059/kiels-mountain/topic/community