35.0% —
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Boolcarroll · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Boolcarroll
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A massive 60% of people in Boolcarroll provide unpaid childcare, marking it as one of the highest areas for this activity. This strong trend of helping others extends into the wider community, with local residents far more likely to volunteer and provide care than those in the rest of the state.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 35% of residents giving their time. This is far 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.
Providing unpaid care is common, with 15% of people doing so, which is well above the national figure of 11.9%. While 60% provide unpaid childcare, only 20% spend 15 or more hours a week on housework, which is a little below the state average.
15.0% —
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
60.0% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.0% —
Lower than 74% 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.
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 Boolcarroll [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10481/boolcarroll/topic/community