18.6% ▼ -52.8%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.4%
- 2016: 54.3%
- 2021: 18.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Dunkeld · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Dunkeld
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people are stepping up to help others in Dunkeld, with 18.6% of the population now volunteering. This is well above the national figure of 14.1%. While community spirit is high, the area has very few people providing formal unpaid care compared to the rest of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 18.6% of residents giving their time, which is well above the 14.1% seen across Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
About 25.6% of people provide unpaid childcare, which is about the same as the national figure. While 23.3% do a little more housework than the national average, no one in the area reported providing other types of unpaid care.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 25.7%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.6% ▼ -21.3%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.5%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 25.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.3% ▼ -15.4%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.5%
- 2016: 37.1%
- 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 residents reported serving in the Defence Force, a figure 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 Dunkeld [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30900/dunkeld/topic/community