11.0% ▼ -37.9%
Lower than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.7%
- 2016: 13.9%
- 2021: 11.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Camooweal · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Camooweal
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Just 11% of people in Camooweal volunteer their time, which is well below the national figure. This low rate of community involvement is part of a broader trend across the area, where unpaid care and volunteer work have both fallen since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 11% of residents volunteer, a figure that is much lower than most areas and fell 6.7 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is far less common here than across Australia, with only 10.1% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework. This is part of a wider drop in care roles, as the number of people caring for children unpaid fell to 18.3% since 2011.
7.3% ▼ -35.9%
Lower than 92% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 7.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
18.3% ▼ -28.0%
Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.5%
- 2016: 30.7%
- 2021: 18.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
10.1% ▼ -64.2%
Lower than 96% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.2%
- 2016: 26.4%
- 2021: 10.1%
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.
No one in the community has served in the Defence Force, which is well below the Queensland rate of 3.9%.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Camooweal [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322025/camooweal/topic/community