21.6% ▲ +5.9%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.4%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 21.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Point Lookout · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Point Lookout
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Point Lookout now volunteer, a rate that has grown since 2011. This community is much more active in volunteering than most other areas. However, the number of people providing unpaid childcare has fallen sharply over the last decade.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 21.6% of residents helping out, which is well above the Queensland and national figures of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is much lower than the state average at 20.7%, but others step up, as 16.6% provide unpaid care for people with disabilities or the elderly. This is well above the national figure of 11.9%.
16.6% ▲ +33.2%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.4%
- 2016: 7.2%
- 2021: 16.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.7% ▼ -39.0%
Lower than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 34.0%
- 2016: 26.9%
- 2021: 20.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.7% ▼ -16.2%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 31.8%
- 2016: 17.3%
- 2021: 26.7%
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.
About 3.5% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the figures for Queensland and Australia.
3.5%
Lower than 53% 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 Point Lookout [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321084/point-lookout/topic/community