20.0% ▼ -24.8%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.7%
- 2016: 27.2%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Toogoolawah · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Toogoolawah
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong spirit of helping others defines daily life in Toogoolawah, where 20% of people volunteer. This level of community involvement is well above the national figure of 14.1%. Residents here are more likely to step up for their neighbours and local causes than people in most other Australian areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
One in five residents volunteers their time, which is well above the 14.1% recorded for both Queensland and Australia. This rate is higher than in most similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 14.6% of people provide unpaid care—a figure well above the state average—those caring for children unpaid are much lower than most areas at 17.4%. Meanwhile, 25.2% of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, which is well above the national figure of 20.7%.
14.6% ▲ +8.5%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.4%
- 2016: 15.0%
- 2021: 14.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.4% ▼ -22.6%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.4%
- 2016: 19.0%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.2% ▼ -21.1%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.0%
- 2016: 26.4%
- 2021: 25.2%
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 5.6% of the population, which is much higher than most areas. This is a little above both the Queensland figure of 3.9% and the Australian figure of 2.8%.
5.6%
Higher than 86% 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 Toogoolawah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32844/toogoolawah/topic/community