# Community Participation — Brewarrina

How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.

Area: Brewarrina (Council (LGA))

Fewer people are contributing unpaid time to their community in Brewarrina than they were a decade ago. This shift is most clear in the drop in unpaid care and volunteering, with only 12.1% of residents now volunteering their time.

Volunteering has fallen 5.0 percentage points since 2011 to 12.1%, a rate that is much lower than most similar areas.

Unpaid work has dropped across the board since 2011, including the 18.1% of people caring for children and 7.8% providing other unpaid care, both of which are well below the national figures.

Only 0.7% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is among the lowest rates for this level of area and a little below the New South Wales average.

## Statistics

| Statistic | Value | Change since |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Volunteers | 12.1% | -29.3% since 2011 |
| People providing unpaid care | 7.8% | -21.3% since 2011 |
| People caring for children unpaid | 18.1% | -25.9% since 2011 |
| People who served in the Defence Force | 0.7% | — |
| People doing 15+ hours of unpaid housework | 15.6% | -24.8% since 2011 |

Interactive: https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA11200/brewarrina/topic/community