14.0% —
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Dows Creek · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Dows Creek
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much lower rates of unpaid care and defence service set Dows Creek apart from similar areas. While some residents are more likely to handle housework and childcare, very few people here have served in the military.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14% of people volunteer, which is lower than most areas and roughly the same as the Queensland and national figures.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
More people here look after children unpaid (28.9%) and do over 15 hours of housework (28.1%) than in most other areas. However, the 7.9% who provide other types of unpaid care is well below the national figure of 11.9%.
7.9% —
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 14.2%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
28.9% —
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 30.2%
- 2021: 28.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
28.1% —
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 31.1%
- 2021: 28.1%
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 Dows Creek has served in the Defence Force, a rate that is 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 Dows Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30874/dows-creek/topic/community