20.2% ▼ -11.0%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.7%
- 2016: 21.5%
- 2021: 20.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Balladoran · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Balladoran
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Balladoran give their time to volunteer, making it a place where community contribution is far more common than in most other areas. This strong spirit of helping out stands in contrast to a very low number of people who have served in the Defence Force.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 20.2% of residents volunteer, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 13% and the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Around 24.6% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, a figure well above the national level of 20.7%. Meanwhile, unpaid care for children and other people remains around the middle for similar areas.
12.3% ▼ -37.5%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.7%
- 2016: 14.0%
- 2021: 12.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.7% ▲ +2.4%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.1%
- 2016: 28.0%
- 2021: 23.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.6% ▼ -24.1%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.4%
- 2016: 22.6%
- 2021: 24.6%
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.
No one in the community has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the 2.8% seen across Australia.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Balladoran [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10158/balladoran/topic/community