19.6% —
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 30.8%
- 2021: 19.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Toolburra · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Toolburra
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong spirit of helping others defines daily life in Toolburra, where 30.4% of people provide unpaid care. This is far above the national figure and shows a community heavily engaged in supporting one another.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 19.6% of people giving their time. This is well above both the Queensland and Australian figures of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 23.9% of residents provide unpaid childcare—a little below the national figure—the rate of people providing general unpaid care is far above the Australian average. Conversely, only 13% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, which is well below the national figure of 20.7%.
30.4% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.8%
- 2021: 30.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.9% —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 35.9%
- 2021: 23.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
13.0% —
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.1%
- 2021: 13.0%
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.
No one in Toolburra has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is well below the Queensland average and a little below the national rate.
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 Toolburra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32848/toolburra/topic/community