20.5% —
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 29.4%
- 2021: 20.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Back Forest · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Back Forest
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A far higher proportion of people in Back Forest handle unpaid housework than the national figure. This is a community where residents give a lot of their time to others, whether through volunteering or caring for family members.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 20.5% of people pitching in, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 13.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Giving unpaid care is very high in this area, with 20.5% of people providing care and 29.5% looking after children. This is reflected in the housework figures, where 35.9% do 15 or more hours of unpaid work each week—far above the 20.7% national figure.
20.5% —
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 16.2%
- 2021: 20.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
29.5% —
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.5%
- 2021: 29.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
35.9% —
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 35.9%
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 3.7% of the population, which is higher than most similar areas and a little above the New South Wales rate of 2.3%.
3.7%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality 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 Back Forest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10130/back-forest/topic/community