13.5% ▼ -43.4%
Lower than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.9%
- 2016: 20.6%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Port Douglas - Craiglie · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Port Douglas - Craiglie
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Only 15% of people in Port Douglas - Craiglie provide unpaid childcare, a figure far below the national average. This area has seen a sharp drop in community-focused activities, with people spending significantly less time on unpaid work and volunteering than they did a decade ago.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 13.5% of residents volunteer, which is lower than most areas and roughly the same as the Queensland and Australian figures. This is a steep decline from 2011, when 23.9% of people volunteered.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Very few residents provide unpaid care; only 5.9% do so, which is well below the national figure. Similarly, those caring for children (15%) or doing 15 or more hours of housework (14.7%) are far less common here than in most other parts of the country.
5.9% ▼ -30.4%
Lower than 97% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
15.0% ▼ -54.2%
Lower than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 32.7%
- 2016: 24.9%
- 2021: 15.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
14.7% ▼ -47.9%
Lower than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.2%
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 14.7%
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.
Defence Force veterans make up 2.0% of the population, which is much lower than most similar areas and a little below the Queensland average.
2.0%
Lower than 86% 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 Port Douglas - Craiglie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315080/port-douglas-craiglie/topic/community