12.0% ▼ -27.7%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.5%
- 2016: 15.7%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Runcorn · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Runcorn
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Runcorn is defined by a high number of parents managing family duties, though other forms of community work are less common. About 27.5% of people here provide unpaid childcare, which is higher than in most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 12% of Runcorn residents volunteer, which is much lower than most areas and slightly below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While unpaid childcare is common, other home duties are less so; 18.1% of people do 15 or more hours of housework, which is much lower than most areas. Similarly, only 10% provide other types of unpaid care, a little below the national figure of 11.9%.
10.0% ▲ +1.2%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.5% ▼ -0.7%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.7%
- 2016: 28.3%
- 2021: 27.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.1% ▼ -5.2%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.1%
- 2016: 18.3%
- 2021: 18.1%
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.
Defence service is less common here than in most areas, with 1.5% of the population having served, which is a little below the Queensland figure of 3.9%.
1.5%
Lower than 63% 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 Runcorn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32491/runcorn/topic/community