10.0% ▼ -21.9%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Slacks Creek · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Slacks Creek
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Only 10% of people in Slacks Creek volunteer their time, which is well below the national figure. This suggests lower levels of community participation across the area compared to most other places. Other forms of unpaid work, such as caring for children or family, are also less common here than in the rest of the state.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates are much lower than most areas, with only 10% of residents helping out, well below the 14.1% seen across Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is less frequent here than in other areas. Only 11.4% of people provide unpaid care and 17.3% do 15 or more hours of housework, which is well below the national figure of 20.7%.
11.4% ▲ +6.1%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.8%
- 2016: 11.4%
- 2021: 11.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.2% ▼ -17.1%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.2%
- 2016: 28.6%
- 2021: 24.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
17.3% ▼ -13.3%
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.0%
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 17.3%
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.
About 2.6% of residents have served in the Defence Force, a figure that is about the same as the national average of 2.8%.
2.6%
Higher than 50% 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 Slacks Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32576/slacks-creek/topic/community