18.8% —
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 18.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Warkon · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Warkon
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly one in five people in Warkon volunteer their time, making it a place where local contribution is much more common than in the rest of the country. While community spirit is high, there are very few residents performing unpaid care or housework roles.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 18.8% of people helping out, which is well above the Queensland and Australian figures of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very rare in Warkon; far fewer people care for children (12.5%) compared to the national average of 26.3%, and no one reports doing 15 or more hours of housework or providing general unpaid care.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 19.2%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
12.5% —
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 12.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.1%
- 2021: 0.0%
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.
Defence service is less common here than in most other areas, with no residents having served in the Defence Force.
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 Warkon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32990/warkon/topic/community