28.2% ▲ +7.2%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.3%
- 2016: 35.7%
- 2021: 28.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Roche Creek · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Roche Creek
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people in Roche Creek volunteer and provide unpaid care than in the rest of the country. About 28% of residents give their time to volunteer work, which is double the national figure. This strong spirit of helping others extends into the home, where unpaid family care is very common.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is a major part of life here, with 28.2% of people pitching in. This is far above the 14.1% seen across both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Family responsibilities are high, as 53.8% of people care for children unpaid and 41% do over 15 hours of housework weekly, both far above national figures. However, only 10.3% provide other unpaid care, which is a little below the national rate of 11.9%.
10.3% ▲ +159.8%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
53.8% ▲ +80.3%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.9%
- 2016: 35.7%
- 2021: 53.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
41.0% ▲ +29.9%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.6%
- 2016: 40.5%
- 2021: 41.0%
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, a figure that is well below the Queensland average 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 Roche Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32446/roche-creek/topic/community