19.6% ▼ -21.0%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.8%
- 2016: 25.1%
- 2021: 19.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tarragindi · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Tarragindi
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
About the same as most similar areas, Tarragindi shows a strong commitment to helping others. Nearly 20% of the population volunteer their time, which is well above the national figure. This community spirit extends into the home, where unpaid care for children is much more common than in most other places.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Roughly 19.6% of people in Tarragindi volunteer, a figure that is well above both the Queensland and Australian averages of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very common here, with 36.2% of people caring for children—well above the national figure of 26.3%. This high level of family care is alongside a higher than average 24.3% of residents who do 15 or more hours of housework weekly.
12.8% ▲ +7.7%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 12.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
36.2% ▲ +7.2%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.8%
- 2016: 33.8%
- 2021: 36.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.3% ▼ -2.2%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.9%
- 2016: 22.4%
- 2021: 24.3%
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 small number of residents have served in the Defence Force, at 3.1%, which is about the same as the figures for Queensland and Australia.
3.1%
Higher than 57% 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 Tarragindi [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32757/tarragindi/topic/community