31.2% ▲ +33.2%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.4%
- 2016: 31.7%
- 2021: 31.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Ellangowan · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Ellangowan
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much higher volunteering rates than most similar areas define Ellangowan, where 31.2% of people give their time to help others. This figure is far above the Queensland and national averages of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 31.2% of residents volunteer, which is far above the 14.1% recorded across Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 13.0% of people provide unpaid care and 23.4% do 15 or more hours of housework—both a little above the national figures—the share of people caring for children unpaid is well below the national average at 20.8%.
13.0% ▲ +8.1%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.0%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.8% ▼ -31.1%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.1%
- 2016: 23.8%
- 2021: 20.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.4% ▼ -15.2%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.6%
- 2016: 26.7%
- 2021: 23.4%
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 the area has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is well below the 3.9% seen across Queensland.
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 Ellangowan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30962/ellangowan/topic/community