12.6% ▼ -26.0%
Lower than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.1%
- 2016: 23.7%
- 2021: 12.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bowen · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Bowen
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
About 22.6% of people in Bowen provide unpaid childcare, the largest form of community contribution in the area. Overall, levels of volunteering and unpaid care are generally lower here than in most other similar places across the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering has dropped to 12.6% since 2011, which is a little below the Queensland and national figures of 14.1%. This is much lower than most other areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Fewer people here provide unpaid care compared to the rest of the state. Only 18.3% do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, while 10.1% provide other types of unpaid care, though this last figure has risen slightly since 2011.
10.1% ▲ +15.4%
Lower than 82% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 9.1%
- 2021: 10.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.6% ▲ +0.4%
Lower than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.5%
- 2016: 30.4%
- 2021: 22.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.3% ▼ -16.2%
Lower than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.8%
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 18.3%
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 3.8% of the population has served in the Defence Force. This is around the middle for similar areas and about the same as the 3.9% recorded for Queensland.
3.8%
Higher than 57% of urban centre 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 Bowen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314006/bowen/topic/community