12.6% ▼ -28.9%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.7%
- 2016: 18.8%
- 2021: 12.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bucca · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bucca
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people in Bucca have served in the Defence Force than in most similar areas. While volunteering is lower than the national figure, the community shows a high rate of people performing significant unpaid housework. These figures paint a picture of a place where service is often focused on the home and former military roles.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 12.6% of people in Bucca volunteer, which is much lower than most areas and a little below the 14.1% recorded for Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
People doing 15 or more hours of unpaid housework are more common here at 26.9%, well above the national figure of 20.7%. Conversely, those caring for children unpaid are well below the national average at 20.8%, while general unpaid care is about the same as the rest of the country.
11.7% ▼ -3.1%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 12.7%
- 2021: 11.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.8% ▼ -17.3%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.1%
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 20.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.9% ▼ -12.0%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.6%
- 2016: 28.2%
- 2021: 26.9%
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.
A high 4.9% of residents have served in the Defence Force, which is much higher than most similar areas and a little above the 2.8% seen across Australia.
4.9%
Higher than 80% 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 Bucca [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30403/bucca/topic/community