11.4% ▼ -28.5%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.9%
- 2016: 15.8%
- 2021: 11.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bundaberg North · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bundaberg North
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A higher-than-usual share of former Defence Force members live in Bundaberg North, though other forms of community service are less common. While 4.8% of residents have served in the military, only 11.4% of the population spends their spare time volunteering.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is much lower here than in most other areas, with 11.4% of people helping out, which is a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for others is more common than usual, with 13.7% of people providing this support. However, those caring for children unpaid are well below the national figure at 19.1%, while 20.7% do 15 or more hours of housework, matching the Queensland and Australian averages.
13.7% ▲ +13.6%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.0%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 13.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.1% ▼ -17.1%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.0%
- 2016: 19.5%
- 2021: 19.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.7% ▼ -17.1%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.9%
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 20.7%
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 4.8% of the population, which is much higher than most similar areas and a little above the national figure of 2.8%.
4.8%
Higher than 78% 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 North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30422/bundaberg-north/topic/community