13.0% —
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Ballalaba · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Ballalaba
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Very few people in Ballalaba provide unpaid care for others, though childcare is a common activity here. While 34.8% of residents care for children unpaid—well above the national figure—no one in the area provides other forms of unpaid care.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Around 13% of people here volunteer, which is about the same as the New South Wales figure, though this is much lower than in most similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
The 34.8% of people caring for children unpaid is well above the national figure of 26.3%. Meanwhile, 17.4% do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, which is well below the typical rate for Australia.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
34.8% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
17.4% —
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
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 Ballalaba has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is a little below the national average of 2.8%.
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 Ballalaba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10159/ballalaba/topic/community