36.3% —
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 25.5%
- 2021: 36.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Barragga Bay · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Barragga Bay
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a third of people in Barragga Bay give their time to volunteer, creating a community where residents are far more active than in other parts of the country. This high level of engagement is reflected in the strong proportion of people providing unpaid support to others.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 36.3% of people helping out. This is far above the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common, with 23.1% of residents providing support—a figure far above the national average of 11.9%. However, those caring for children unpaid are much lower than most areas at 16.5%, while about 23.1% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly.
23.1% —
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 23.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
16.5% —
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 16.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.1% —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 27.7%
- 2021: 23.1%
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.
Defence service is more frequent here than in most areas, with 3.4% of residents having served. This is a little above the New South Wales figure of 2.3%.
3.4%
Higher than 62% 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 Barragga Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10211/barragga-bay/topic/community