18.2% —
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 18.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Dittmer · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Dittmer
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a quarter of people in Dittmer provide unpaid child care, making it the most common form of community support here. Residents are generally more active in helping others than those in most other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 18.2% of people volunteer their time, which is well above the 14.1% figure seen across both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 15.9% of people providing a helping hand, a figure well above the national average. This is alongside 25.0% of residents doing 15 or more hours of housework a week, which is also well above the national figure.
15.9% —
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 16.1%
- 2021: 15.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.3% —
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 17.9%
- 2021: 27.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.0% —
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 17.9%
- 2021: 25.0%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, which is lower than most areas and well below the Queensland average 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 Dittmer [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30852/dittmer/topic/community