15.4% —
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 29.1%
- 2021: 15.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Kokotungo · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Kokotungo
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Roughly 23% of people provide unpaid care in Kokotungo, which is among the highest rates for similar areas. While volunteering is slightly more common here than in the rest of the country, the area is marked by a very high level of unpaid care work.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 15.4% of people volunteer, which is a little above the Queensland and national figures of 14.1%, though this is lower than most similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While only 15.4% of people provide unpaid childcare—far below the national figure of 26.3%—many others step up in different ways. Unpaid care for others is far above the national rate at 23.1%, and the 24.4% who do 15 or more hours of housework weekly is well above the Australian average.
23.1% —
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 23.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
15.4% —
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 17.7%
- 2021: 15.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.4% —
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 31.6%
- 2021: 24.4%
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 Queensland rate of 3.9%.
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 Kokotungo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31565/kokotungo/topic/community