17.8% ▼ -30.9%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.8%
- 2016: 24.8%
- 2021: 17.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Pomona · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Pomona
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people than usual give their time to others in Pomona, where nearly 18% of residents volunteer. This spirit of contribution shows up in high rates of unpaid home duties and a strong presence of former Defence Force members.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 17.8% of people giving their time. This is well above the 14.1% recorded for both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid housework is very common, with 30.7% of people doing 15 or more hours a week, a figure far above the national average of 20.7%. This sits alongside 13.6% of residents providing general unpaid care and 24.5% caring for children, which is a little below the state and national figures.
13.6% ▲ +10.2%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.5% ▼ -19.0%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.2%
- 2016: 28.7%
- 2021: 24.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.7% ▼ -9.3%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.8%
- 2016: 29.7%
- 2021: 30.7%
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.
A higher proportion of people than most areas have served in the Defence Force, at 3.9%. This is a little above the Australian figure of 2.8% and about the same as the Queensland average.
3.9%
Higher than 70% 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 Pomona [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32345/pomona/topic/community