17.7% ▼ -14.5%
Higher than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.7%
- 2016: 16.3%
- 2021: 17.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Springbrook · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Springbrook
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong spirit of helping others defines daily life in Springbrook, where 17.7% of people volunteer. This is well above the national figure of 14.1%, though it has fallen since 2011. Residents here are also more likely to provide unpaid care and housework than people in most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.7% of residents volunteer their time, which is well above the 14.1% seen across Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common here, with 29.2% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, a figure well above the national average. Those providing unpaid care sit at 14.0%, which is a little above the national figure and has risen since 2011.
14.0% ▲ +18.2%
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.5% ▲ +99.1%
Higher than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 28.7%
- 2021: 25.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
29.2% ▼ -14.7%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 34.3%
- 2016: 20.7%
- 2021: 29.2%
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.
Defence service is much more common here than in most areas, with 6.1% of people having served, which is well above the Australian average of 2.8%.
6.1%
Higher than 88% 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 Springbrook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322112/springbrook/topic/community