22.0% —
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 29.5%
- 2021: 22.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Billa Billa · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Billa Billa
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Forty-one per cent of people in Billa Billa provide unpaid childcare, a figure far above the national average. This high level of home care is part of a broader trend of community contribution and unpaid work in the area.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 22% of residents giving their time, which is well above the Queensland and Australian figures of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very frequent, with 26.8% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework a week. This is well above the national figure, alongside 14.6% of residents providing some form of unpaid care.
14.6% —
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 14.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
41.5% —
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 39.7%
- 2021: 41.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.8% —
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 29.5%
- 2021: 26.8%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, which is well below the 3.9% seen across Queensland.
0.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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 Billa Billa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30251/billa-billa/topic/community