26.3% ▲ +7.2%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.5%
- 2016: 31.4%
- 2021: 26.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Booroobin · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Booroobin
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in four people volunteer in Booroobin, making it a place where community contribution is far more common than in other areas. This spirit of helping out is seen across the board, from local volunteering to high levels of unpaid care for others.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 26.3% of people pitching in. This is far above the 14.1% figure seen across both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is a big part of life in Booroobin, where 35% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, far above the national figure of 20.7%. This high level of home support sits alongside 16.1% of people providing unpaid care, which is well above the 11.9% Australian average.
16.1% ▲ +7.7%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.0%
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 16.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.0% ▼ -18.3%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.3%
- 2016: 30.9%
- 2021: 24.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
35.0% ▼ -4.7%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.7%
- 2016: 32.3%
- 2021: 35.0%
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 more common here than in most areas, with 5.6% of people having served. This is a little above the 3.9% seen in Queensland and double the national figure of 2.8%.
5.6%
Higher than 86% 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 Booroobin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30330/booroobin/topic/community