30.5% ▼ -12.2%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.7%
- 2016: 41.0%
- 2021: 30.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Thallon · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Thallon
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A far higher proportion of people volunteer in Thallon than in the rest of the country. About 30.5% of residents give their time to community work, which is 16 percentage points above the Queensland and national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 30.5% of people helping out. This is much higher than most similar areas and far above the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is well below the national figure at 21.4%. Similarly, the 6.4% of people providing unpaid care is much lower than most areas, though 23.0% of residents do 15 or more hours of housework weekly.
6.4% ▼ -39.8%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.7%
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 6.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.4% ▼ -27.0%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.3%
- 2016: 29.5%
- 2021: 21.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.0% ▼ -22.8%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.8%
- 2016: 21.5%
- 2021: 23.0%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 2.1% of the population. This is about the same as the Australian figure and a little below the Queensland rate of 3.9%.
2.1%
Lower than 58% 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 Thallon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32778/thallon/topic/community