14.8% ▼ -18.5%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.2%
- 2016: 17.3%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Deepwater · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Deepwater
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much higher rates of unpaid care and military service set Deepwater apart from similar areas. While volunteering is typical for the region, the community is marked by a very high number of people performing unpaid work at home.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.8% of residents volunteer, which is about the same as the Queensland and national figures.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common here, with 38% of people doing over 15 hours of housework weekly, far above the national figure of 20.7%. This is consistent with 17.1% of people providing unpaid care, though the rate of those caring for children is far below the Australian average at 12.2%.
17.1% ▲ +16.4%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.7%
- 2016: 19.9%
- 2021: 17.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
12.2% ▼ -39.9%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.2%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 12.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
38.0% ▲ +10.9%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.3%
- 2016: 39.8%
- 2021: 38.0%
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 larger share of the population has served in the Defence Force, with 5.7% of residents having done so, which is a little above the national rate of 2.8%.
5.7%
Higher than 86% 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 Deepwater [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30823/deepwater/topic/community