21.0% ▼ -19.1%
Higher than 67% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 26.0%
- 2016: 26.7%
- 2021: 21.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Goondiwindi · Council (LGA)
Community Participation in Goondiwindi
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong culture of helping others defines daily life in Goondiwindi, where 21% of residents volunteer. This rate is well above the national figure of 14.1%, though it has fallen by 5 percentage points since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is much more common here than in most other areas, with 21% of people giving their time, which is 6.9 percentage points higher than across Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
About 27% of people provide unpaid childcare, which is about the same as the national figure. Meanwhile, those doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly fell to 20.8% since 2011, and 11.1% of residents provide some form of unpaid care.
11.1% ▲ +6.0%
Lower than 65% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.0% ▼ -10.4%
Higher than 67% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 30.1%
- 2016: 27.4%
- 2021: 27.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.8% ▼ -17.7%
Lower than 61% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 25.2%
- 2016: 22.5%
- 2021: 20.8%
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 less common here than in most areas, with 2.5% of the population having served, a figure slightly below the Queensland average of 3.9%.
2.5%
Lower than 67% of council (lga) 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 Goondiwindi [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA33610/goondiwindi/topic/community