18.7% ▼ -2.0%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.1%
- 2016: 24.0%
- 2021: 18.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Dugandan · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Dugandan
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly one in five people in Dugandan volunteer their time, a rate well above the national figure. This community shows a strong commitment to helping others, while also having a notably high proportion of former Defence Force members.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 18.7% of residents volunteer, which is well above the 14.1% recorded for both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While only 13.1% of people provide unpaid care, 24.9% do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly, which is well above the national figure of 20.7%. Conversely, the 21.2% of people caring for children unpaid is well below the Australian average of 26.3%.
13.1% ▲ +17.9%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 13.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.2% ▼ -26.8%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.9%
- 2016: 31.2%
- 2021: 21.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.9% ▼ -12.9%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.5%
- 2016: 25.1%
- 2021: 24.9%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 4.4% of the population, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas and a little above the Australian average of 2.8%.
4.4%
Higher than 75% 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 Dugandan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30886/dugandan/topic/community