4.6% ▼ -83.7%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.4%
- 2016: 19.0%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Doomadgee · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Doomadgee
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Forty-one percent of people in Doomadgee provide unpaid childcare, a figure far above the national average. This reflects a community where looking after children is a primary focus, though other forms of volunteering and unpaid work are much less common.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering has dropped sharply since 2011, falling 24 percentage points to just 4.6%. This is now among the lowest rates for any similar area and is well below the Queensland figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 40.9% of people look after children unpaid, only 3.9% spend 15 or more hours a week on housework, which is far below the national figure of 20.7%. Unpaid care for others is also much lower than most areas at 8.7%.
8.7% ▼ -21.3%
Lower than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 12.4%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
40.9% ▲ +9.0%
Higher than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 37.5%
- 2016: 28.0%
- 2021: 40.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
3.9% ▼ -87.4%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 30.9%
- 2016: 27.6%
- 2021: 3.9%
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.
The proportion of people who served in the Defence Force is 1.5%. This is among the lowest at this level and sits a little below the Australian figure of 2.8%.
1.5%
Lower than 90% 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 Doomadgee [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315030/doomadgee/topic/community