18.4% ▼ -10.5%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.6%
- 2016: 15.8%
- 2021: 18.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Booerie Creek · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Booerie Creek
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Local residents in Booerie Creek are very active in supporting others, with 17.5% providing unpaid care. This level of community support is much higher than in most similar areas and well above the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 18.4% of people giving their time. This is well above both the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Many people handle significant home duties, as 25.4% do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly. While 17.5% provide general unpaid care, the proportion of people caring for children unpaid is 21.1%, which is well below the national figure of 26.3%.
17.5% ▲ +8.5%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.2%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 17.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.1% ▼ -40.4%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.3%
- 2016: 19.1%
- 2021: 21.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.4% ▼ -24.0%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.5%
- 2016: 17.1%
- 2021: 25.4%
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 seen in 2.6% of the population. This is about the same as the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
2.6%
Lower than 51% 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 Booerie Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10473/booerie-creek/topic/community