23.8% ▼ -5.1%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.1%
- 2016: 23.5%
- 2021: 23.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lake Eacham · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lake Eacham
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly a quarter of people in Lake Eacham volunteer their time, a figure well above the national average. This community is active in giving back, while also showing a strong commitment to unpaid home and care work.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 23.8% of people helping out, which is 9.7 percentage points higher than the figure for Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
About 33.4% of residents spend 15 or more hours a week on unpaid housework, far above the national figure of 20.7%. Meanwhile, 13.4% provide unpaid care and 24.1% care for children unpaid, both figures sitting close to state and national levels.
13.4% ▲ +29.6%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.3%
- 2016: 14.5%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.1% ▲ +9.4%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.0%
- 2016: 28.4%
- 2021: 24.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
33.4% ▲ +38.0%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.2%
- 2016: 29.2%
- 2021: 33.4%
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.
Service in the Defence Force is more common here than in most areas, with 5.1% of people having served, which is a little above the 3.9% seen in Queensland.
5.1%
Higher than 82% 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 Lake Eacham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31614/lake-eacham/topic/community