13.5% ▼ -15.7%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.1%
- 2016: 21.8%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Alice River · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Alice River
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much higher rates of unpaid childcare set Alice River apart from most similar areas. While general volunteering is common, the local community is especially defined by a very high proportion of residents who have served in the Defence Force.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 13.5% of residents volunteer, which is lower than most areas and roughly the same as the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Care work is very common here, with 35.9% of people caring for children unpaid—well above the 26.3% national average. This is alongside higher than usual rates of people doing 15 or more hours of housework each week.
12.8% ▲ +23.6%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 12.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
35.9% ▼ -3.7%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.3%
- 2016: 36.6%
- 2021: 35.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.6% ▼ -16.1%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.5%
- 2016: 27.1%
- 2021: 25.6%
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.
Defence service is very common in Alice River, where 10.8% of people have served. This is well above the figures for both Queensland (3.9%) and Australia (2.8%).
10.8%
Higher than 98% 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 Alice River [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30034/alice-river/topic/community