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Eastwood · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)

Community Participation in Eastwood

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

Lower rates of unpaid care and volunteering set Eastwood apart from many similar areas. While 22.3% of residents spend 15 or more hours a week on housework, this is more than the national figure of 20.7%.

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📍 Eastwood, Statistical Area 2 (SA2)

Where Eastwood sits — Volunteers

12.7% —

All statistical area 2 (sa2) areas, 2021. The marker is Eastwood — lower than 65% of areas.

Eastwood12.7%
2122, NSW 13.3%
New South Wales 13.0%
Australia 14.1%

Participation

Volunteering for organisations and groups.

About 12.7% of people here volunteer, which is lower than most areas and a little below the Australian figure of 14.1%.

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12.7% —

Lower than 65% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.

Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.

Unpaid care & work

Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.

Providing unpaid care is much less common here than in most areas, with 10.5% of people doing so. Similarly, those caring for children unpaid (24.9%) are slightly below the national figure of 26.3%.

Defence service

People who served in the Australian Defence Force.

Only 0.9% of residents have served in the Defence Force, a figure that is among the lowest for areas of this size.

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 Eastwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/126021723/eastwood/topic/community