12.4% ▼ -27.2%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.1%
- 2016: 19.1%
- 2021: 12.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bowen · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bowen
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Bowen provide unpaid childcare, though this is well below the national figure. The area generally sees lower levels of community involvement and unpaid work compared to most other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 12.4% of residents volunteer, which is much lower than most areas and a little below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is less common here than in most places. This includes people providing general unpaid care (10.4%) and those doing 15 or more hours of housework each week (18.9%), both of which are a little below the national figures.
10.4% ▲ +15.2%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 10.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.4% ▼ -2.5%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.0%
- 2016: 23.0%
- 2021: 22.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.9% ▼ -15.4%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.3%
- 2016: 21.8%
- 2021: 18.9%
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.
A higher share of the population than most areas has served in the Defence Force, with 3.6% of residents having served, which is about the same as the figures for Queensland and Australia.
3.6%
Higher than 66% 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 Bowen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30342/bowen/topic/community