19.7% ▲ +10.4%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.9%
- 2016: 17.6%
- 2021: 19.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wolffdene · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Wolffdene
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly one in five people in Wolffdene give their time to volunteer, making it a place where residents are far more active in community work than the national average. This spirit of helping others is also seen in the high number of people providing unpaid care and support to their families.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 19.7% of people here volunteer, which is well above the 14.1% figure seen across both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common, with 14.5% of residents providing a helping hand, a figure that is higher than most areas. This includes 27.6% of people caring for children unpaid, which is a little above the national average of 26.3%.
14.5% ▼ -2.4%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.8%
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.6% ▲ +1.9%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.1%
- 2016: 28.2%
- 2021: 27.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.2% ▼ -2.0%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.7%
- 2016: 22.7%
- 2021: 23.2%
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.
Around 2.2% of the population have served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the Queensland figure of 3.9%.
2.2%
Lower than 57% 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 Wolffdene [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33111/wolffdene/topic/community