2.2% ▼ -18.4%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 2.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wacol · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Wacol
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Just 2.2% of people volunteer in Wacol, a figure that is far below the national average. This low level of community involvement extends across unpaid care and service, marking Wacol as an area with very low rates of unpaid work compared to the rest of the state.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is among the lowest for this level of area, with only 2.2% of residents helping out, which is 12 percentage points lower than the Queensland and Australian figures.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Very few people provide unpaid care here, with just 1.7% doing so. This is well below the state average, and is consistent with the low numbers of people doing unpaid housework (2.6%) or caring for children (2.9%).
1.7% ▼ -10.3%
Lower than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 1.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
2.9% ▼ -38.4%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 2.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
2.6% ▼ -44.3%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 2.6%
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.
Defence service is less common in Wacol than in most other areas. Only 0.7% of the population have served in the Defence Force, which is well below the Queensland figure of 3.9%.
0.7%
Lower than 70% 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 Wacol [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32950/wacol/topic/community