16.7% —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Diglum · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Diglum
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Half of the people in Diglum provide unpaid childcare, a figure far above the national average. This highlights a community where family responsibilities and home-based care play a massive role in daily life.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 16.7% of people giving their time, which is a little above the Queensland and Australian figures of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care for children is very common at 50%, which is far above the national figure of 26.3%. This is consistent with 30.6% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, well above the 20.7% seen across Australia.
11.1% —
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
50.0% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 50.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.6% —
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 44.4%
- 2021: 30.6%
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 the area has served in the Defence Force, a result that is well below the Queensland rate 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 Diglum [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30844/diglum/topic/community