17.6% ▼ -10.3%
Higher than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.6%
- 2016: 15.5%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Gowrie Junction · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Gowrie Junction
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over a third of residents in Gowrie Junction provide unpaid childcare, making it a community with a very high level of family care. This trend is far more common here than across Queensland or Australia. Other forms of community contribution, like volunteering and defence service, are also strong.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.6% of people here volunteer, which is well above the national and state figure of 14.1%. This is around the middle for similar areas, though the rate has fallen 2.0 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Childcare is a major focus here, with 35.4% of people caring for children unpaid—well above the national figure of 26.3%. While 24.2% do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, providing other types of unpaid care is lower than most areas at 12.5%.
12.5% ▲ +23.0%
Lower than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.1%
- 2016: 9.1%
- 2021: 12.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
35.4% ▲ +16.7%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 30.3%
- 2016: 27.7%
- 2021: 35.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.2% ▼ -9.8%
Higher than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.9%
- 2016: 26.0%
- 2021: 24.2%
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.
Defence service is more common in Gowrie Junction than in most areas. About 4.3% of residents have served in the Defence Force, which is a little above the Australian figure of 2.8%.
4.3%
Higher than 68% 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 Gowrie Junction [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315038/gowrie-junction/topic/community