16.9% ▼ -22.7%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.8%
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 16.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Limestone Creek · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Limestone Creek
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people perform unpaid housework in Limestone Creek than in other parts of the state. This local trend is most evident in the high rate of people managing the home and caring for children, though formal volunteering is closer to the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Around 16.9% of residents volunteer, which is a little above the Queensland and Australian figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Housework is a major activity here, with 37.2% of people doing 15 or more hours a week, far above the national figure of 20.7%. Similarly, those caring for children unpaid (29.7%) are well above the Australian average, while those providing other unpaid care (8.8%) are well below it.
8.8% ▼ -11.3%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 8.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
29.7% ▼ -22.2%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.2%
- 2016: 27.3%
- 2021: 29.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
37.2% ▲ +37.8%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.0%
- 2016: 28.7%
- 2021: 37.2%
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 served in the Defence Force make up 2.6% of the population, which is about the same as the national figure of 2.8%.
2.6%
Higher than 50% 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 Limestone Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31661/limestone-creek/topic/community