22.2% —
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 35.0%
- 2021: 22.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Curramore · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Curramore
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Forty per cent of people in Curramore do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework a week, which is far above the national figure. This community is highly active in supporting others, with strong rates of volunteering and unpaid care across the area.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 22.2% of residents giving their time. This is well above the 14.1% seen across both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very frequent in the area; 15.2% of people provide this support, which is much higher than most similar places. About 27.5% of residents also provide unpaid childcare, a figure slightly above the national average.
15.2% —
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 15.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.5% —
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 25.8%
- 2021: 27.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
40.4% —
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 33.1%
- 2021: 40.4%
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.
Service in the Defence Force is more common here than in most other areas, with 5.3% of the population having served. This is a little above the national figure of 2.8%.
5.3%
Higher than 83% 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 Curramore [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30772/curramore/topic/community