17.1% —
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Dunmore · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Dunmore
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Around 17% of people in Dunmore give their time to volunteering, which is a little above the national figure. This level of community spirit contrasts with very low rates of unpaid care and housework compared to the rest of the state.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 17.1% of residents helping out, which is a little above the 14.1% seen across Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is much lower than most areas; only 7.3% provide unpaid care and just 9.8% do 15 or more hours of housework, far below the national figure of 20.7%. Similarly, the 19.5% of people caring for children unpaid is well below the 26.3% Australian average.
7.3% —
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.5% —
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
9.8% —
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
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 community has served in the Defence Force, a rate well below the 3.9% seen across Queensland.
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 Dunmore [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30902/dunmore/topic/community