16.6% ▼ -18.9%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.5%
- 2016: 24.4%
- 2021: 16.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Oakhurst · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Oakhurst
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people provide unpaid care in Oakhurst than in the rest of the state. While about 16.6% of residents volunteer, the community is most defined by the high number of people managing home and family duties. This is especially true for childcare and general unpaid care work.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering rates in Oakhurst are around the middle for similar areas, with 16.6% of people helping out, which is a little above the national and state figures of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common here, as 32.4% of people care for children and 16.0% provide other unpaid care, both of which are well above the national figures. Similarly, the 27.1% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework is well above the Australian average of 20.7%.
16.0% ▲ +27.5%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.5%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 16.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
32.4% ▼ -4.8%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.0%
- 2016: 32.7%
- 2021: 32.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.1% ▼ -14.4%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.7%
- 2016: 26.9%
- 2021: 27.1%
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 population has served in the Defence Force at 3.8%, which is a little above the national figure of 2.8% and about the same as the Queensland average.
3.8%
Higher than 69% 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 Oakhurst [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32211/oakhurst/topic/community