33.8% ▲ +10.2%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.7%
- 2016: 32.2%
- 2021: 33.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mungabunda · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mungabunda
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A striking 33.8% of people in Mungabunda volunteer, making it a place where community involvement is far more common than in most other areas. This high level of participation is seen alongside a strong trend of people taking on unpaid care and domestic work at home.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates are far above the national figure of 14.1%, with over a third of the population giving their time to help others.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid domestic work is common here, with 32.3% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, well above the 20.7% national average. This is consistent with a high number of people caring for children unpaid (38.5%), though the 9.2% who provide other types of unpaid care is a little below the Australian figure.
9.2% ▲ +5.7%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 15.3%
- 2021: 9.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
38.5% ▲ +3.2%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.3%
- 2016: 32.2%
- 2021: 38.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
32.3% ▼ -10.9%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.2%
- 2016: 37.3%
- 2021: 32.3%
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, which is lower than most areas and well below the Queensland figure 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 Mungabunda [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32069/mungabunda/topic/community