12.2% ▼ -40.4%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.5%
- 2016: 19.4%
- 2021: 12.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Takura · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Takura
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than 30% of people in Takura provide unpaid childcare, a figure well above the national average. This is the most prominent form of community contribution in the area, though other types of volunteering are less common.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 12.2% of residents volunteer, which is much lower than most similar areas and a little below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common here, with 29.0% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework, well above the national figure of 20.7%. This aligns with the high rate of unpaid childcare, while those providing other types of unpaid care are much lower than most areas at 10.0%.
10.0% ▼ -31.1%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 11.4%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.3% ▼ -1.7%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.8%
- 2016: 32.3%
- 2021: 30.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
29.0% ▲ +2.7%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.2%
- 2016: 35.6%
- 2021: 29.0%
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.
About 3.4% of the population have served in the Defence Force, which is higher than most areas and about the same as the figures for Queensland and Australia.
3.4%
Higher than 62% 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 Takura [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32719/takura/topic/community