19.5% ▼ -8.4%
Higher than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.3%
- 2016: 14.0%
- 2021: 19.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Daintree · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Daintree
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 30% of people in Daintree (L) spend 15 or more hours a week on unpaid housework. This is a community where unpaid work and volunteering are common, with residents far more likely to provide care and help others than those in the rest of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 19.5% of people helping out, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. This is higher than most similar areas, though the rate has fallen slightly since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very high here, with 18.3% of people providing care and 29.3% doing 15 or more hours of housework, both well above the national figure. In contrast, the 22.0% of people caring for children unpaid is well below the Queensland average.
18.3% ▲ +77.4%
Higher than 95% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.3%
- 2016: 14.7%
- 2021: 18.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.0% ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.9%
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 22.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
29.3% ▲ +15.1%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.4%
- 2016: 31.6%
- 2021: 29.3%
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.
About 3.5% of people have served in the Defence Force. This is around the middle for similar areas and about the same as the figures for Queensland and Australia.
3.5%
Lower than 52% 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 Daintree [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322032/daintree/topic/community