18.5% ▲ +16.0%
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.9%
- 2016: 15.4%
- 2021: 18.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Pie Creek · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Pie Creek
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than 31% of people in Pie Creek do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework each week. This reflects a community where residents are very active in supporting their homes and others, with a strong trend toward volunteering and caregiving.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 18.5% of people volunteer here, which is well above the 14.1% figure for both Queensland and Australia. This rate has grown since 2011, when it sat at 15.9%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common in the area, with 16.3% of people providing such care—a figure well above the national average of 11.9%. Around 27.2% of residents care for children unpaid, and 31.3% spend significant time on housework, which is far above the Queensland figure of 20.7%.
16.3% ▲ +147.7%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 16.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.2% ▲ +11.4%
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 24.5%
- 2016: 37.4%
- 2021: 27.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
31.3% ▲ +13.5%
Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.6%
- 2016: 24.6%
- 2021: 31.3%
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.
A slightly higher proportion of the population has served in the Defence Force compared to the rest of the country, at 4.5% versus the national figure of 2.8%.
4.5%
Higher than 72% 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 Pie Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321082/pie-creek/topic/community