7.8% —
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.2%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Boogan · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Boogan
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Gaps from state and national figures are stark in Boogan, where community activity is unusually low. While 20.7% of people provide unpaid care, which is well above the national figure, very few residents volunteer or serve in the Defence Force.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 7.8% of people here volunteer, a figure that is well below the 14.1% seen across Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
People providing unpaid care are very common at 20.7%, which is well above the national average. However, those caring for children (19.8%) and those doing 15 or more hours of housework (8.6%) are both well below the figures for Queensland and Australia.
20.7% —
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 17.3%
- 2021: 20.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.8% —
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 27.6%
- 2021: 19.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
8.6% —
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.4%
- 2021: 8.6%
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% recorded for 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 Boogan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30316/boogan/topic/community