8.9% ▼ -29.4%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.6%
- 2016: 16.4%
- 2021: 8.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Booragul · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Booragul
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A gap of over 5 percentage points separates Booragul from the national average in volunteering rates. While some residents are active in care and service, overall community participation is much lower than in most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 8.9% of people here volunteer, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is well below the national figure at 21.7%, yet 14.3% of residents provide some form of unpaid care, which is a little above the state and national averages.
14.3% ▲ +11.1%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 15.7%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.7% ▼ -4.6%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.8%
- 2016: 26.2%
- 2021: 21.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.7% ▼ -16.5%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.6%
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 19.7%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 3.8% of the population, which is higher than most areas and a little above the New South Wales rate of 2.3%.
3.8%
Higher than 68% 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 Booragul [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10493/booragul/topic/community