17.3% ▼ -20.6%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.8%
- 2016: 22.0%
- 2021: 17.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Ridgewood · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Ridgewood
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A far higher share of people perform heavy unpaid housework in Ridgewood than in the rest of the country. This community shows a strong lean toward unpaid work and volunteering, with numbers for these activities sitting well above the national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.3% of people here volunteer their time, which is well above the Queensland and Australian figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common here, with 31.5% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework—far above the national figure of 20.7%. This is consistent with 16.1% of residents providing unpaid care, which is well above the Australian average of 11.9%.
16.1% ▲ +35.3%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 10.6%
- 2021: 16.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.0% ▼ -10.7%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.0%
- 2016: 28.6%
- 2021: 25.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
31.5% ▲ +2.6%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.7%
- 2016: 29.8%
- 2021: 31.5%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 3.3% of the population, a figure that is higher than most similar areas.
3.3%
Higher than 60% 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 Ridgewood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32428/ridgewood/topic/community