15.8% ▼ -29.1%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.4%
- 2016: 22.5%
- 2021: 15.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Albany Creek · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Albany Creek
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Albany Creek involves a high level of family and service commitments, with 31.8% of people providing unpaid childcare. This focus on home and family is seen alongside a strong presence of former and current military personnel.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 15.8% of residents volunteer their time, which is a little above the figures for Queensland and Australia, though lower than most similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Many residents balance home duties, with 31.8% caring for children unpaid—a figure well above the national average. Around 22.6% spend 15 or more hours a week on housework, and 12.8% provide some form of unpaid care.
12.8% ▲ +27.2%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.1%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 12.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
31.8% ▼ -4.3%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.2%
- 2016: 33.2%
- 2021: 31.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.6% ▼ -3.8%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.5%
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 22.6%
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.
Military service is much more common here than in most areas, with 6.0% of people having served in the Defence Force, well above the 2.8% national figure.
6.0%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality 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 Albany Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30020/albany-creek/topic/community