19.3% ▼ -17.8%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.5%
- 2016: 27.4%
- 2021: 19.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wooroolin · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Wooroolin
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A higher-than-average share of residents now help out in the community, with 19.3% of Wooroolin people volunteering. This is well above both the Queensland and national figures of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Almost one in five people in Wooroolin volunteer their time, which is 5.2 percentage points higher than the state and national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Housework is a significant part of local life, with 26.4% of people doing over 15 hours of unpaid chores weekly, well above the 20.7% seen across Australia. Meanwhile, 12.2% provide some form of unpaid care, which is about the same as the rest of the country.
12.2% ▲ +9.0%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 12.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.8% ▼ -11.8%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.1%
- 2016: 27.4%
- 2021: 24.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.4% ▼ -17.9%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.1%
- 2016: 26.3%
- 2021: 26.4%
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.
About 2.4% of the population has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is slightly lower than the Queensland average of 3.9%.
2.4%
Lower than 55% 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 Wooroolin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33158/wooroolin/topic/community