15.9% ▼ -17.7%
Lower than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.3%
- 2016: 19.9%
- 2021: 15.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Toowoomba · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Toowoomba
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Toowoomba sits around the middle of other similar areas for community involvement. While 15.9% of the population volunteer, this is a drop from the 19.3% seen in 2011. The region is also more likely to have people who served in the Defence Force than most other places.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 15.9% of people volunteer here, which is a little above the figures for Queensland and Australia. However, this is 3.4 percentage points lower than it was in 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is around 25.6%, similar to the state and national figures. While 12.5% of people provide some form of unpaid care, only 20.0% do 15 or more hours of housework, which is much lower than most areas.
12.5% ▲ +20.7%
Lower than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 12.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.6% ▼ -7.3%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.6%
- 2016: 27.0%
- 2021: 25.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.0% ▼ -17.8%
Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 24.4%
- 2016: 22.2%
- 2021: 20.0%
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 4.4% of people having served. This is a little above the Australian figure of 2.8%.
4.4%
Higher than 68% of urban centre 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 Toowoomba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL303002/toowoomba/topic/community