27.7% ▲ +21.2%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.9%
- 2016: 30.9%
- 2021: 27.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Duaringa · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Duaringa
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A far higher share of people volunteer in Duaringa compared to the rest of the country. This community is strongly engaged, with 27.7% of residents giving their time to others, which is more than double the national rate.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is much more common here than in most areas. The 27.7% rate is 14 percentage points higher than the figures for both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
More people here provide unpaid support than the state average, including 13.4% who provide unpaid care and 27.7% who care for children. Around 23.3% of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly, which is a little above the national figure.
13.4% ▲ +93.1%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.9%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.7% ▲ +21.2%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.9%
- 2016: 21.8%
- 2021: 27.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.3% ▼ -17.0%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.0%
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 23.3%
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 Duaringa has served in the Defence Force. This is well below the Queensland rate of 3.9% and a little below the Australian figure of 2.8%.
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 Duaringa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30882/duaringa/topic/community