15.9% ▼ -12.9%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.3%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 15.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Fitzgerald Creek · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Fitzgerald Creek
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Caregiving roles have become a defining feature of life in Fitzgerald Creek, with a huge proportion of the population providing unpaid support. This is most evident in the fact that 56.5% of people look after children without pay, a figure far above the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 15.9% of people here volunteer their time, which is a little above the Queensland and Australian figures of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Household responsibilities are very high here, with 40.6% of people doing 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly. This is far above the national figure of 20.7%, and 14.5% of residents provide other forms of unpaid care.
14.5% ▲ +17.5%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
56.5% ▲ +97.2%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.7%
- 2016: 22.7%
- 2021: 56.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
40.6% ▲ +46.3%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.7%
- 2016: 28.8%
- 2021: 40.6%
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 area has served in the Defence Force, which is well below the Queensland rate 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 Fitzgerald Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31044/fitzgerald-creek/topic/community