28.2% ▼ -2.9%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.0%
- 2016: 34.7%
- 2021: 28.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wheatlands · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Wheatlands
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 28% of people in Wheatlands volunteer, a figure far above the national average. This high level of community involvement defines the area, where residents are much more likely to give their time to others than people in most other Australian places.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 28.2% of residents volunteer their time, which is 14 percentage points higher than the figures for both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 32.4% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework—far above the national figure of 20.7%—only 8.5% provide unpaid care, which is well below the national average.
8.5% ▼ -44.4%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.2%
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 8.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.4% ▼ -29.2%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.8%
- 2016: 36.1%
- 2021: 25.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
32.4% ▲ +1.5%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.9%
- 2016: 34.7%
- 2021: 32.4%
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 the community has served in the Defence Force, a result that is well below the Queensland figure of 3.9%.
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 Wheatlands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33056/wheatlands/topic/community