19.2% —
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 19.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Taunton · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Taunton
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly one in five people in Taunton volunteer, a rate that is well above both the Queensland and national figures. While community spirit is high, the area is sparsely populated and shows very little involvement in formal care or defence service.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 19.2% of residents giving their time, which is 5.1 percentage points higher than the figures for Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 34.6% of people spend 15 or more hours a week on unpaid housework—a figure far above the national average—very few provide other types of support. Only 19.2% care for children unpaid, and no one in the area provides unpaid care for others.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.2%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.2% —
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 19.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
34.6% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.2%
- 2021: 34.6%
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.
There is very little history of military service in the area, with 0% of residents having served in the Defence Force, which is well below the Queensland rate of 3.9%.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Taunton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32760/taunton/topic/community