7.4% ▼ -31.8%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.9%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bundaberg Central · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bundaberg Central
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A gap of nearly 7 percentage points separates the volunteering rate in Bundaberg Central from the national average. Only 7.4% of people here volunteer, which is among the lowest rates for similar areas. The community also sees much lower levels of unpaid care and housework compared to the rest of Queensland.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Just 7.4% of residents volunteer, a figure that is well below the 14.1% seen across both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is far less common here than in other areas; for example, only 8.8% of people care for children unpaid, compared to 26.5% in Queensland. Similarly, those doing over 15 hours of unpaid housework are far below the state and national figure of 20.7%.
8.1% ▲ +43.2%
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 8.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
8.8% ▲ +3.0%
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.5%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 8.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
6.8% ▲ +2.3%
Lower than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 6.8%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 2.1% of the population, which is about the same as the national figure of 2.8%.
2.1%
Lower than 58% 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 Bundaberg Central [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30420/bundaberg-central/topic/community