18.5% —
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wychie · Suburb / Locality
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far fewer people perform unpaid care tasks than in other areas, but Wychie sees strong local involvement. While 0% of residents do significant unpaid housework, 18.5% of the community give their time as volunteers.
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 18.5% of residents helping out. This is well above the 14.1% figure seen across both Queensland and Australia.
18.5% —
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very rare in the area. No one reports spending 15 or more hours a week on housework or providing unpaid care, and the 18.5% who care for children unpaid is well below the national figure of 26.3%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
18.5% —
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did 15 hours or more of unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census.
People who served in the Australian Defence Force.
No one in the community has served in the Defence Force, which is lower than most areas and well below the Queensland rate 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).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Community Participation in Wychie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33186/wychie/topic/community