20.9% ▼ -31.9%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.7%
- 2016: 29.2%
- 2021: 20.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Dalcouth · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Dalcouth
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Dalcouth volunteer, a figure that stands well above the national average. This community shows a strong commitment to helping others, with high rates of both formal volunteering and unpaid care work.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 20.9% of people helping out, which is well above the 14.1% recorded across Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is a significant part of life for many, as 17.4% of people provide unpaid care—well above the national figure of 11.9%. This includes 28.5% of residents doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, which is also well above the national average of 20.7%.
17.4% ▼ -11.0%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.6%
- 2016: 19.2%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.2% ▼ -2.5%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.8%
- 2016: 36.2%
- 2021: 26.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
28.5% ▼ -23.5%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.3%
- 2016: 42.3%
- 2021: 28.5%
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.
Defence service is less common in Dalcouth than in most other areas, with 1.8% of people having served, a little below the 2.8% national figure.
1.8%
Lower than 61% 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 Dalcouth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30793/dalcouth/topic/community