17.4% ▲ +51.8%
Higher than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.5%
- 2016: 19.2%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lucinda · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Lucinda
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than 17% of people in Lucinda volunteer their time, which is well above the national figure. This suggests a strong local commitment to helping others, especially as the number of volunteers has risen steadily since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.4% of residents volunteer, a figure that is well above the 14.1% seen across Queensland and Australia. This rate has risen by 5.9 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common here, with 27.1% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, well above the national figure. While those providing general unpaid care have increased to 14.2%, the number of people caring for children unpaid has fallen sharply since 2011 to 16.6%.
14.2% ▲ +54.8%
Higher than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 14.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
16.6% ▼ -40.4%
Lower than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.9%
- 2016: 15.5%
- 2021: 16.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.1% ▼ -5.5%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.6%
- 2016: 30.4%
- 2021: 27.1%
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.
Defence service is more common in Lucinda than in most areas, with 5.4% of people having served, which is a little above the figures for Queensland and Australia.
5.4%
Higher than 82% 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 Lucinda [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322073/lucinda/topic/community