23.3% ▼ -25.1%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.1%
- 2016: 29.5%
- 2021: 23.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Goomburra · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Goomburra
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Higher rates of community involvement than most similar areas define Goomburra, where 23.3% of people volunteer. This spirit of helping out extends into the home and the wider community, with more residents providing unpaid care and support than is typical across the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 23.3% of residents giving their time. This is well 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 significant part of life in Goomburra, with 30.2% of people caring for children and 26.7% doing over 15 hours of housework weekly. Both figures are well above the national averages.
14.4% ▲ +73.3%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 14.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.2% ▲ +16.5%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.9%
- 2016: 28.6%
- 2021: 30.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.7% ▼ -16.5%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.0%
- 2016: 26.2%
- 2021: 26.7%
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.
About 2.5% of the population have served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the Australian figure of 2.8%.
2.5%
Lower than 53% 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 Goomburra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31196/goomburra/topic/community