6.5% ▼ -23.0%
Lower than 95% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 6.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Merinda · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Merinda
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
About 23.2% of people in Merinda (L) spend 15 or more hours a week on unpaid housework, which is a little above the national figure. While housework is common, other forms of community involvement are low, with few people volunteering or caring for children unpaid.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very low in Merinda (L) at 6.5%, which is well below the Queensland and Australian figures of 14.1%. This rate has also fallen by 1.9 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is far below the national figure at 16.2%, falling 6.4 percentage points since 2011. In contrast, 13.5% of people provide some form of unpaid care, a figure that has barely changed over the last decade.
13.5% ▲ +1.4%
Higher than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 14.2%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
16.2% ▼ -28.2%
Lower than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.6%
- 2016: 27.7%
- 2021: 16.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.2% ▲ +32.7%
Lower than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.5%
- 2016: 22.6%
- 2021: 23.2%
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.
Very few people in Merinda (L) have served in the Defence Force, with only 1.7% doing so. This is much lower than most similar areas and a little below the national figure of 2.8%.
1.7%
Lower than 89% 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 Merinda [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322078/merinda/topic/community