23.0% —
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 28.6%
- 2021: 23.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lower Tully · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lower Tully
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A far higher proportion of people contribute their time to others than in most similar areas, making Lower Tully a notably active community. This is most evident in the 23% of residents who volunteer, a figure well above the national average of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 23% of people helping out, which is 8.9 percentage points higher than the figures for both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very frequent, with 23% of residents providing support, which is far above the national figure of 11.9%. While 24.3% do a lot of housework, only 21.6% provide unpaid childcare, which is well below the Queensland average of 26.5%.
23.0% —
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 23.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.6% —
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 34.9%
- 2021: 21.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.3% —
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 39.7%
- 2021: 24.3%
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 the area has served in the Defence Force, a result that is well below the Queensland figure 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 Lower Tully [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31695/lower-tully/topic/community