3.4% ▼ -80.5%
Lower than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.3%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 3.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Spring Creek · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Spring Creek
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Only 3.4% of people volunteer in Spring Creek, which is among the lowest rates for areas like it. This low level of community involvement is seen across several categories, including unpaid care and housework.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Just 3.4% of residents here volunteer, a figure that is far below the 14.1% seen across both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much less common here than elsewhere. Only 6.8% of people care for children unpaid and 5.5% provide general unpaid care, both of which are well below national and state figures.
5.5% ▼ -55.9%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.4%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 5.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
6.8% ▼ -53.2%
Lower than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 6.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
9.5% ▼ -56.1%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.6%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 9.5%
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 share of the population has served in the Defence Force compared to most areas, with 3.6% of residents having served.
3.6%
Higher than 65% 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 Spring Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32621/spring-creek/topic/community