20.7% ▼ -41.0%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.1%
- 2016: 36.2%
- 2021: 20.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Coalstoun Lakes · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Coalstoun Lakes
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over 20% of people in Coalstoun Lakes volunteer, which is well above the national figure. This high level of community involvement is matched by a strong tendency to provide unpaid care for others. It is a place where residents are significantly more likely to give their time to help others than people in most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 20.7% of residents volunteer, a figure that is well above both the Queensland and Australian averages of 14.1%. This level of participation is higher than in most similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Caregiving is common here, with 30.5% of people caring for children unpaid, well above the national figure of 26.3%. While 14.6% of people provide other unpaid care, the proportion doing 15 or more hours of housework is a little below the national rate of 20.7%.
14.6% ▼ -6.2%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.6%
- 2016: 17.0%
- 2021: 14.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.5% ▼ -7.4%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.9%
- 2016: 29.8%
- 2021: 30.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.3% ▼ -35.1%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.2%
- 2016: 31.9%
- 2021: 18.3%
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.
No one in this area has served in the Defence Force, which is well below the Queensland average of 3.9%.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Coalstoun Lakes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30638/coalstoun-lakes/topic/community