24.3% ▼ -8.5%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.6%
- 2016: 29.7%
- 2021: 24.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Thangool · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Thangool
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A huge 10 percentage point gap separates Thangool from the rest of the country when it comes to volunteering. This small community is far more active in unpaid work than most areas, with nearly a quarter of residents giving their time to others.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 24.3% of people here volunteer, a figure that is far above the 14.1% seen across both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Around 27.4% of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly, which is well above the national figure of 20.7%. Meanwhile, those providing unpaid care or looking after children are about the same as the state and national averages.
12.0% ▲ +14.8%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.0% ▼ -23.2%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.2%
- 2016: 29.7%
- 2021: 27.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.4% ▲ +8.4%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.3%
- 2016: 31.3%
- 2021: 27.4%
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.
Only 1.3% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the figures for Queensland and Australia.
1.3%
Lower than 65% 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 Thangool [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32781/thangool/topic/community