13.7% ▼ -28.3%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.1%
- 2016: 19.1%
- 2021: 13.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bomaderry · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bomaderry
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people than usual have served in the military in Bomaderry, though other forms of community contribution are more modest. While 6.9% of residents are former or current Defence Force members, rates of volunteering and unpaid childcare are lower than in many similar areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is less common here than in most areas, with 13.7% of people helping out. This is about the same as the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is well below the national figure at 22.8%. While 13.1% of people provide some form of unpaid care, which is a little above the state average, about 21.3% spend 15 or more hours a week on housework.
13.1% ▼ -3.6%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.6%
- 2016: 13.9%
- 2021: 13.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.8% ▼ -8.7%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 24.7%
- 2021: 22.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.3% ▼ -18.1%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.0%
- 2016: 23.4%
- 2021: 21.3%
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.
A striking 6.9% of residents have served in the Defence Force. This is much higher than most similar areas and well above the 2.8% national average.
6.9%
Higher than 89% 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 Bomaderry [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10452/bomaderry/topic/community