25.4% —
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 21.1%
- 2021: 25.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wildash · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Wildash
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a quarter of people in Wildash volunteer, a rate far above the national figure. This is a community where people are highly active in unpaid work, although they are far less likely than most Australians to provide unpaid care for children.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 25.4% of people helping out. This is 11 percentage points higher than in Queensland and across Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Only 6% of people provide unpaid care and just 11.9% care for children, both figures being much lower than most areas. Meanwhile, 22.4% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, which is a little above the national figure of 20.7%.
6.0% —
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
11.9% —
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 22.8%
- 2021: 11.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.4% —
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 22.4%
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.
People who have served in the Defence Force make up 6.1% of the population, which is much higher than most similar areas and well above the Australian average of 2.8%.
6.1%
Higher than 87% 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 Wildash [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33075/wildash/topic/community