12.6% ▲ +11.4%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.3%
- 2016: 14.6%
- 2021: 12.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lockrose · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lockrose
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A high number of residents in Lockrose provide unpaid support to others, helping to sustain the local community. While only 12.6% of people volunteer, the area is marked by a strong tradition of service, with 4.4% of residents having served in the Defence Force.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is much lower here than in most similar areas. At 12.6%, this is a little below the Queensland and Australian figures of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is a significant part of life here, with 16.2% of people providing such support—a figure well above the national average. This is alongside 25.7% of residents caring for children unpaid, which is about the same as the figures for Queensland and Australia.
16.2% ▲ +43.7%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.3%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 16.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.7% ▲ +0.6%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.6%
- 2016: 25.1%
- 2021: 25.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.5% ▼ -8.7%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.6%
- 2016: 21.7%
- 2021: 21.5%
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 to the country is more common in Lockrose than in most other areas. Those who served in the Defence Force make up 4.4% of the population, which is a little above the Australian figure of 2.8%.
4.4%
Higher than 75% 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 Lockrose [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31674/lockrose/topic/community