25.0% ▼ -14.7%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.3%
- 2016: 21.6%
- 2021: 25.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bongeen · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bongeen
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A far higher share of people volunteer in Bongeen than in the rest of the country. One in four residents gives their time to others, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. This spirit of helping others is a defining feature of the area.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 25% of people helping out, which is far above the Queensland and Australian figures of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 32.1% of people provide unpaid childcare—well above the national rate of 26.3%—almost no one in the area provides other types of unpaid care. This contrasts with 11.9% of Australians who provide such support.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
32.1% ▼ -5.8%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.1%
- 2016: 37.3%
- 2021: 32.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
17.9% ▼ -44.9%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.4%
- 2016: 29.4%
- 2021: 17.9%
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, a figure well below the Queensland average of 3.9%.
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 Bongeen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30310/bongeen/topic/community