18.7% ▼ -21.3%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.8%
- 2016: 21.3%
- 2021: 18.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lake Macdonald · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lake Macdonald
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong spirit of volunteering has remained a feature of Lake Macdonald, where nearly 19% of residents give their time to others. This is well above the national figure and highlights a community where people are active in supporting each other.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 18.7% of people here volunteer, which is well above the Queensland and Australian figures of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While the share of people caring for children is a little below the national 26.3%, unpaid care is common here. Those doing 15 or more hours of housework per week are far above the national figure, and 13.8% provide some form of unpaid care.
13.8% ▲ +6.5%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 13.4%
- 2021: 13.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.4% ▼ -14.9%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.5%
- 2016: 30.0%
- 2021: 23.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
31.1% ▼ -8.4%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.0%
- 2016: 30.7%
- 2021: 31.1%
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.
People who have served in the Defence Force make up 4.5% of the population, which is much higher than in most similar areas and a little above the national 2.8%.
4.5%
Higher than 77% 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 Macdonald [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31615/lake-macdonald/topic/community