18.7% ▼ -6.6%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.0%
- 2016: 18.0%
- 2021: 18.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Te Kowai · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Te Kowai
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Around the middle for its level among similar areas, Te Kowai shows a strong spirit of helping out. Nearly 19% of people here volunteer, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 18.7% of residents giving their time. This is well above the 14.1% seen across both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is high at 29.7%, well above the national figure. However, other unpaid work is much lower than most areas, with only 8.8% of people providing general unpaid care and 18.7% doing 15 or more hours of housework.
8.8% ▼ -8.8%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 8.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
29.7% ▲ +3.8%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.6%
- 2016: 29.5%
- 2021: 29.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.7% ▼ -2.5%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.2%
- 2016: 21.9%
- 2021: 18.7%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 2.2% of the population. This is about the same as the Australian average and a little below the Queensland figure of 3.9%.
2.2%
Lower than 58% 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 Te Kowai [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32762/te-kowai/topic/community