17.4% ▼ -38.3%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.2%
- 2016: 27.1%
- 2021: 17.4%
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.
More people give their time to help others in Spring Creek than in the typical Australian town. While 17.4% of residents volunteer, the area sees a higher-than-average amount of housework being done at home.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 17.4% of people helping out, which is well above the 14.1% recorded for both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Nearly 30% of residents spend 15 or more hours a week on unpaid housework, a figure well above the national average. However, the area has a much lower rate of people providing unpaid care or looking after children compared to most other areas.
8.1% ▼ -32.2%
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 8.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.7% ▼ -14.2%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.3%
- 2016: 27.1%
- 2021: 21.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
29.8% ▼ -7.1%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.1%
- 2016: 23.2%
- 2021: 29.8%
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.
About 2.5% of the community has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the national figure of 2.8%.
2.5%
Lower than 52% 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/SAL32622/spring-creek/topic/community