12.0% ▼ -44.1%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.5%
- 2016: 19.7%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Dysart · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Dysart
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
About 25.6% of people in Dysart provide unpaid care for children, which is around the middle for similar areas. While childcare is common, other forms of unpaid help and volunteering are much less frequent here than in the rest of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 12% of residents volunteer, a figure that is much lower than most areas and a little below the national mark of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for adults is rare here, with only 5.6% of people providing this help, which is well below the Australian figure of 11.9%. Similarly, those doing 15 or more hours of housework each week are much fewer than in most areas, at 16.3%.
5.6% ▲ +6.2%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.2%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.6% ▼ -25.4%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.3%
- 2016: 31.8%
- 2021: 25.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
16.3% ▼ -27.5%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.5%
- 2016: 19.0%
- 2021: 16.3%
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.
Defence service is common at a level around the middle for similar areas, with 2.3% of people having served, slightly below the Queensland figure of 3.9%.
2.3%
Lower than 56% 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 Dysart [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30913/dysart/topic/community