26.5% —
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 34.4%
- 2021: 26.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Pheasant Creek · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Pheasant Creek
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A striking 26.5% of people in Pheasant Creek volunteer, which is far above the national figure. This high level of community involvement is a defining feature of the area, where residents are much more likely to give their time than people in most other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 26.5% of the population helping out. This is far above the 14.1% recorded for both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Childcare is a major focus, as 32.4% of people provide unpaid care for children, which is well above the national figure of 26.3%. However, providing other types of unpaid care is much lower than most areas, and only 8.8% of residents do 15 or more hours of housework, far below the 20.7% seen across Australia.
8.8% —
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 31.3%
- 2021: 8.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
32.4% —
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 34.4%
- 2021: 32.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
8.8% —
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 34.4%
- 2021: 8.8%
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 figure that is lower than most areas and 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 Pheasant Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32305/pheasant-creek/topic/community