13.8% ▼ -16.7%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.5%
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 13.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Weranga · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Weranga
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Strong levels of unpaid care work define Weranga, where 20.4% of people provide unpaid care. This is well above the national figure and among the highest for similar areas. While volunteering is common, the community is most notable for its high rate of people who have served in the Defence Force.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 13.8% of people here are volunteers, which is lower than most areas and about the same as the figures for Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is far below the national average at 12.0%. However, 20.4% of people provide other unpaid care, a figure well above the Queensland and Australian averages.
20.4% ▲ +17.7%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.3%
- 2016: 16.3%
- 2021: 20.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
12.0% ▼ -50.4%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.2%
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.2% ▼ -36.8%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.1%
- 2016: 25.6%
- 2021: 22.2%
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.
Defence service is much more common here than in most similar areas, with 5.4% of people having served in the Defence Force.
5.4%
Higher than 84% 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 Weranga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33031/weranga/topic/community