21.3% ▼ -29.9%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.4%
- 2016: 25.4%
- 2021: 21.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Boorolong · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Boorolong
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Boorolong volunteer their time, making it a community where helping out is much more common than in most other areas. This spirit of contribution is paired with high rates of unpaid care and housework at home.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 21.3% of residents helping out. This is well above 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 work is a major part of life for many, with 31.1% doing 15 or more hours of housework—far above the national figure of 20.7%. This is consistent with a much higher rate of people providing general unpaid care (16.4%) compared to the 11.9% across Australia.
16.4% ▲ +21.3%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.5%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 16.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.2% ▼ -6.6%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.1%
- 2016: 35.8%
- 2021: 26.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
31.1% ▲ +14.0%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.3%
- 2016: 32.8%
- 2021: 31.1%
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.
No one in the area reported serving in the Defence Force, which is a little below the New South Wales rate of 2.3%.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Boorolong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10497/boorolong/topic/community