12.5% —
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 36.7%
- 2021: 12.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Boonarga · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Boonarga
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Boonarga involves a high level of support for others, as 15.6% of people provide unpaid care. This is well above the national figure, though other forms of community contribution like volunteering are less common here.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 12.5% of residents volunteer, which is much lower than most areas and slightly below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 15.6% of people provide unpaid care—well above the Queensland figure of 11.5%—far fewer people care for children unpaid (21.9%) compared to most of the country. Notably, no one here reports doing 15 or more hours of unpaid housework per week.
15.6% —
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 15.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.9% —
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 50.0%
- 2021: 21.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 40.0%
- 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.
No one in Boonarga has served in the Defence Force, which is well below the Queensland rate 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 Boonarga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30323/boonarga/topic/community