13.2% ▼ -65.3%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.9%
- 2016: 14.5%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Dauan Island · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Dauan Island
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over half of the people on Dauan Island provide unpaid childcare, a figure far above the national average. This highlights a community where looking after children is a primary focus, while other forms of unpaid work and volunteering are less common.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 13.2% of residents volunteer, which is much lower than most similar areas and about the same as the figures for Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Caring for children is very common here, with 52.6% of people doing so—far above the national figure of 26.3%. However, other unpaid work is rare, with only 3.9% providing general unpaid care or doing 15 or more hours of housework, both of which are well below state and national levels.
3.9% ▲ —
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 3.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
52.6% ▲ +76.1%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.9%
- 2016: 36.4%
- 2021: 52.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
3.9% ▼ -79.3%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.1%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 3.9%
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 high number of residents have served in the Defence Force, with 12.2% of people having done so, which is well above the Australian figure of 2.8%.
12.2%
Higher 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 Dauan Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30814/dauan-island/topic/community