5.0% ▼ -59.2%
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wujal Wujal · Council (LGA)
Community Participation in Wujal Wujal
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Strongly contrasting patterns of community work define Wujal Wujal, where unpaid childcare is among the highest in the region. While many people support families at home, formal volunteering has fallen sharply to just 5% of residents. This makes the area's community participation quite different from most other places in the state.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 5% of people here volunteer, which is well below the Queensland and national figures of 14.1%. This is among the lowest rates for similar areas and represents a fall of 7.3 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is very common, with 44.7% of people providing this care—far above the national figure of 26.3%. In contrast, those providing other types of unpaid care are a little below the national average at 9%, and no one reported doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly.
9.0% ▼ -20.5%
Lower than 83% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 12.9%
- 2021: 9.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
44.7% ▲ +6.8%
Higher than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 41.9%
- 2016: 41.0%
- 2021: 44.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 29.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 much more common here than in most other areas, with 4.5% of residents having served. This is a little above the Australian figure of 2.8% and about the same as the Queensland rate.
4.5%
Higher than 88% 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 Wujal Wujal [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA37570/wujal-wujal/topic/community