18.7% ▲ +2.3%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.3%
- 2016: 20.5%
- 2021: 18.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lucinda · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lucinda
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people than usual in Lucinda contribute their time to others, with 18.7% of residents volunteering. This level of community involvement is well above both the Queensland and national figures of 14.1%. The area also has a notably high number of former Defence Force members.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates in Lucinda are well above the national and state figures, with 18.7% of people giving their time, which is around the middle for similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 12.9% of people provide unpaid care, very few are caring for children unpaid at 16.3%, which is far below the 26.3% national average. However, 28.4% of residents spend 15 or more hours a week on unpaid housework, a figure well above the rest of the country.
12.9% ▲ +41.5%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.1%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 12.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
16.3% ▼ -15.9%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.4%
- 2016: 15.5%
- 2021: 16.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
28.4% ▼ -11.5%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.1%
- 2016: 31.5%
- 2021: 28.4%
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 much higher proportion of residents here have served in the Defence Force compared to most areas, with 5.3% of people having served, slightly above the national figure of 2.8%.
5.3%
Higher than 83% 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 Lucinda [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31701/lucinda/topic/community