13.2% ▼ -22.1%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.9%
- 2016: 16.5%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Worongary · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Worongary
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
About 30.1% of people in Worongary provide unpaid childcare, a figure well above the national average. This high level of family care defines the community's contribution to unpaid work, though other forms of volunteering are less common.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering rates are much lower than in most similar areas, with 13.2% of residents helping out, which is about the same as the Queensland and Australian figures.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 30.1% of people provide unpaid childcare, those doing 15 or more hours of housework (22.5%) or providing other unpaid care (11.6%) are less common than in most areas.
11.6% ▲ +7.5%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.8%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.1% ▼ -3.6%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.3%
- 2016: 32.3%
- 2021: 30.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.5% ▼ -8.3%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.5%
- 2016: 23.5%
- 2021: 22.5%
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 around the middle for its level, with 2.5% of people having served, which is a little below the Queensland figure of 3.9%.
2.5%
Lower than 52% 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 Worongary [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33166/worongary/topic/community