19.0% ▼ -37.9%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.7%
- 2016: 29.1%
- 2021: 19.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Laceys Creek · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Laceys Creek
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than 30% of residents in Laceys Creek do a significant amount of housework, making it an area where domestic contribution is notably high. This community is also very active in other ways, with a strong tendency toward volunteering and unpaid care for others.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Nearly one in five people here volunteer, at 19.0%. This is well above both the Queensland and national figures of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common, with 30.3% of people spending 15 or more hours a week on housework, which is well above the national figure of 20.7%. This sits alongside a higher than usual rate of people caring for children unpaid (29.0%) and a slightly higher rate of general unpaid care (12.6%).
12.6% ▲ +38.8%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 15.2%
- 2021: 12.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
29.0% ▲ +7.8%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.9%
- 2016: 22.0%
- 2021: 29.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.3% ▲ +2.2%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.6%
- 2016: 26.0%
- 2021: 30.3%
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.
About 2.1% of the population have served in the Defence Force. This is around the middle for similar areas and a little below the Queensland rate of 3.9%.
2.1%
Lower than 58% 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 Laceys Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31602/laceys-creek/topic/community