8.3% —
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 8.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Oyster Creek · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Oyster Creek
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Almost no one in Oyster Creek provides unpaid care to others, with 0% of residents doing so. This is far below the national figure of 11.9%, highlighting a place where formal or informal caregiving is very rare.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 8.3% of people here volunteer, which is well below the 14.1% recorded for both Queensland and Australia. This is among the lowest rates for similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is very rare here at 8.3%, far below the national average of 26.3%. However, 25% of people spend 15 or more hours a week on unpaid housework, which is well above the 20.7% seen across Australia.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
8.3% —
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 27.5%
- 2021: 8.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.0% —
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 32.5%
- 2021: 25.0%
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. This is lower than most areas and 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 Oyster Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32244/oyster-creek/topic/community