14.3% ▼ -12.4%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.3%
- 2016: 23.4%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wongabel · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Wongabel
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people than usual in Wongabel spend a large amount of time on unpaid housework. While most activities align with state and national figures, the area has a higher-than-average number of former Defence Force members.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.3% of people here volunteer, which is lower than most other areas and about the same as the national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid housework is common, with 28.1% of people doing 15 or more hours a week, which is well above the 20.7% seen across Australia and Queensland. Other care roles are more typical, with 26.0% caring for children unpaid and 12.2% providing general unpaid care.
12.2% ▲ +15.9%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 12.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.0% ▼ -24.6%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.5%
- 2016: 28.3%
- 2021: 26.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
28.1% ▲ +0.7%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.9%
- 2016: 28.8%
- 2021: 28.1%
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 more common here than in most areas, with 3.6% of people having served, which is about the same as the Queensland figure.
3.6%
Higher than 65% 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 Wongabel [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33123/wongabel/topic/community