20.4% ▼ -15.2%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.1%
- 2016: 25.3%
- 2021: 20.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Taringa · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Taringa
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people in Taringa volunteer their time compared to most similar areas. About 20.4% of residents give back to the community, which is well above the 14.1% national figure. While civic engagement is high, this area sees much lower rates of unpaid care work than the state and national averages.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
A strong 20.4% of residents volunteer, a figure that is well above the 14.1% recorded for both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much less common here than in most areas. Only 9.4% of people provide unpaid care, and the 21.1% who care for children unpaid is well below the national figure of 26.3%.
9.4% ▲ +18.3%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.9%
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 9.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.1% ▲ +23.6%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.1%
- 2016: 19.3%
- 2021: 21.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
17.7% ▲ +14.7%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.5%
- 2016: 15.0%
- 2021: 17.7%
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.
About 2.9% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the Australian average of 2.8%.
2.9%
Higher than 54% 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 Taringa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32751/taringa/topic/community