20.5% ▼ -23.3%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.8%
- 2016: 29.1%
- 2021: 20.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Captain Creek · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Captain Creek
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over 30% of residents spend significant time on housework, marking Captain Creek as an area with high levels of domestic activity. While many locals contribute to the community through volunteering, far fewer are providing unpaid childcare compared to the state average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 20.5% of people helping out, which is well above the 14.1% figure for both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 30.5% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework—well above the national figure of 20.7%—only 21.9% care for children unpaid, which is well below the Australian average of 26.3%. Unpaid care for others sits at 12.4%, about the same as the rest of the country.
12.4% ▲ +20.6%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.3%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 12.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.9% ▼ -12.7%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.1%
- 2016: 24.5%
- 2021: 21.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.5% ▼ -12.0%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.7%
- 2016: 40.1%
- 2021: 30.5%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 2.2% of the population, which is a little below the Queensland figure of 3.9%.
2.2%
Lower than 58% 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 Captain Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30531/captain-creek/topic/community