12.3% ▼ -49.9%
Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 24.7%
- 2016: 15.3%
- 2021: 12.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Toogoom · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Toogoom
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Fewer people in Toogoom are volunteering and caring for children than they were in 2011, but others are doing more housework and caregiving. The most striking change is the drop in volunteering, which fell by 12 percentage points over the decade to 12.3%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 12.3% of people here volunteer, which is much lower than most similar areas and a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While the 20.6% of people caring for children unpaid is well below the national figure, other unpaid work is common. This is seen in the 27.5% who do 15 or more hours of housework a week and the 14.9% who provide unpaid care, both of which are much higher than in most areas.
14.9% ▲ +150.6%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 13.4%
- 2021: 14.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.6% ▼ -54.0%
Lower than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 44.7%
- 2016: 23.8%
- 2021: 20.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.5% ▲ +18.8%
Higher than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.2%
- 2016: 29.1%
- 2021: 27.5%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 6.6% of the population, which is among the highest for areas of this size and well above the Australian figure of 2.8%.
6.6%
Higher than 90% 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 Toogoom [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315094/toogoom/topic/community