36.4% —
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 37.5%
- 2021: 36.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bourbah · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bourbah
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A remarkably high proportion of residents in Bourbah give their time to others, with 36.4% of people volunteering. This level of community spirit is among the highest for similar areas and far exceeds both state and national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
More than a third of the population volunteers, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 13% and the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Very few people here provide unpaid support; no one reports providing unpaid care, and only 15.2% care for children unpaid, which is far below the national figure of 26.3%. Similarly, just 9.1% do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, a rate far below most other areas.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 28.1%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
15.2% —
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 15.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
9.1% —
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 21.9%
- 2021: 9.1%
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 community has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the 2.8% seen across Australia.
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 Bourbah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10519/bourbah/topic/community