22.9% —
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 36.5%
- 2021: 22.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wolfang · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Wolfang
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Very few people in Wolfang have served in the military, but the community is highly active in other ways. Roughly 23% of residents volunteer, which is a much higher rate than the national figure. This local spirit of helping out defines the area's community participation.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 22.9% of people giving their time. This is well above the 14.1% recorded for both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children (18.6%) and general unpaid care (7.1%) are both much lower than in most areas. However, 25.7% of people do 15 or more hours of housework a week, which is well above the national figure of 20.7%.
7.1% —
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 7.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
18.6% —
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 36.5%
- 2021: 18.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.7% —
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 28.6%
- 2021: 25.7%
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 figure that is well below the Queensland average 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 Wolfang [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33110/wolfang/topic/community