20.0% ▼ -39.3%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.9%
- 2016: 28.1%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Boree Creek · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Boree Creek
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
One in five people in Boree Creek provide unpaid care, a rate well above the national figure. This community is highly active in supporting others, with strong levels of volunteering and caregiving compared to the rest of the state.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 20.0% of residents helping out, which is well above the New South Wales rate of 13.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very prevalent, as 20.0% of people provide care and 26.3% do over 15 hours of housework weekly, both well above national figures. However, the 21.3% of people caring for children unpaid is well below the Australian average of 26.3%.
20.0% ▲ +37.6%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 16.3%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.3% ▼ -18.8%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.2%
- 2016: 28.1%
- 2021: 21.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.3% ▼ -13.2%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.2%
- 2016: 30.0%
- 2021: 26.3%
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.
About 3.1% of the population have served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the New South Wales rate of 2.3%.
3.1%
Higher than 58% 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 Boree Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10510/boree-creek/topic/community