10.8% —
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Fitzroy Island · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Fitzroy Island
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A higher than usual share of people on Fitzroy Island have served in the Defence Force. However, the area is sparsely populated and very few residents engage in unpaid care or volunteer work, with only 10.8% of people volunteering.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Just 10.8% of people here volunteer, which is well below the 14.1% seen across Queensland and Australia, and much lower than most other areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is almost non-existent here; 0% of people provide unpaid care or look after children, and only 3.6% do 15 or more hours of housework, all of which are far below national figures.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
3.6% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 3.6%
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.
About 3.8% of residents have served in the Defence Force, a figure that is higher than most similar areas and slightly above the Australian average of 2.8%.
3.8%
Higher than 68% 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).
More for Fitzroy Island
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Community Participation in Fitzroy Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31046/fitzroy-island/topic/community