5.6% ▼ -55.3%
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.5%
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lockhart River · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lockhart River
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Almost 38% of people in Lockhart River provide unpaid childcare, a rate far above the national figure. This high level of family care stands out in a community where other forms of volunteering and unpaid assistance are much less common than in the rest of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 5.6% of people volunteer their time, which is well below the 14.1% seen across Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 38.1% of residents provide unpaid childcare—far above the national figure of 26.3%—only 4.9% provide other unpaid care, which is well below most areas. Around 21.4% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, which is about the same as the national rate.
4.9% ▼ -16.1%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
38.1% ▼ -26.5%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 51.9%
- 2016: 40.7%
- 2021: 38.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.4% ▼ -48.1%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.2%
- 2016: 30.0%
- 2021: 21.4%
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.
A higher than usual proportion of the community has served in the Defence Force, with 3.2% of people having served.
3.2%
Higher than 59% 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 Lockhart River [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31673/lockhart-river/topic/community