20.4% ▲ +59.3%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 20.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Poona · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Poona
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Giving back and helping others is a major part of daily life in Poona, where 20.4% of people volunteer. This is well above the national figure and shows a strong trend of increasing community involvement over the last decade.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering in Poona is higher than in most similar areas, rising by 7.6 percentage points since 2011 to reach 20.4%. This is well above the Queensland and Australian figures of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While very few people here provide unpaid childcare—a figure far below the national 26.3%—more residents do housework and general care. Unpaid care is a little above the national figure at 14.1%, and 35.7% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, which is far above the national figure.
14.1% ▲ +22.4%
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.5%
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
6.7% ▼ -63.6%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 18.4%
- 2016: 23.0%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
35.7% ▲ +4.3%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 34.3%
- 2016: 27.7%
- 2021: 35.7%
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.
A high proportion of the community has served in the Defence Force. At 8.1%, this is among the highest rates for similar areas and is well above the national figure of 2.8%.
8.1%
Higher than 97% 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 Poona [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321085/poona/topic/community