38.2% ▼ -12.3%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.6%
- 2016: 42.6%
- 2021: 38.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lonesome Creek · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lonesome Creek
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people volunteer in Lonesome Creek than in most similar areas. This high level of community spirit is seen in the 38.2% of residents who give their time to help others, a figure that sits far above the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 38.2% of people helping out. This is 24 percentage points higher than the figure for both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Care roles are common, as 33.8% of people look after children unpaid, which is well above the national figure of 26.3%. While 23.5% do at least 15 hours of housework weekly, the 9.6% who provide other unpaid care is much lower than in most areas.
9.6% ▼ -4.4%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
33.8% ▼ -11.8%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.3%
- 2016: 38.5%
- 2021: 33.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.5% ▼ -27.0%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.2%
- 2016: 28.7%
- 2021: 23.5%
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.
No one in Lonesome Creek has served in the Defence Force, which is well below the Queensland rate of 3.9%.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Lonesome Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31682/lonesome-creek/topic/community