19.2% ▼ -9.6%
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.2%
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 19.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Boonah · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Boonah
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people in Boonah volunteer their time compared to most similar areas. Around 19.2% of residents give their time to others, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Nearly one in five people volunteer here, though this is 2.0 percentage points lower than it was in 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is mixed in the area; 25.1% of people do 15 or more hours of housework a week, which is well above the state figure. However, the share of people caring for children unpaid is much lower than most areas at 19.1%, falling 15 percentage points since 2011.
13.3% ▲ +119.2%
Higher than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.1% ▼ -44.4%
Lower than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 34.3%
- 2016: 9.2%
- 2021: 19.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.1% ▲ +18.3%
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.3%
- 2016: 30.5%
- 2021: 25.1%
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.
The proportion of people who served in the Defence Force is 4.5%, which is higher than most similar areas and a little above the Australian average of 2.8%.
4.5%
Higher than 71% 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 Boonah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315009/boonah/topic/community