8.0% ▼ -32.0%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 16.2%
- 2021: 8.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bow Bowing · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bow Bowing
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a quarter of people in Bow Bowing provide unpaid childcare, though other forms of community contribution are less common. This is the most frequent way residents give their time, while volunteering levels are among the lowest for areas of this type.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 8% of people here volunteer, a figure that is well below the national average of 14.1% and far lower than most similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 26.6% of residents provide unpaid childcare—slightly above the New South Wales figure—fewer people here spend 15 or more hours a week on housework compared to most other areas.
11.5% ▲ +6.4%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.8%
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.6% ▼ -16.4%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.8%
- 2016: 31.7%
- 2021: 26.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.6% ▼ -1.1%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.8%
- 2016: 19.1%
- 2021: 19.6%
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 have served in the Defence Force make up 1.2% of the population, which is a little below the national figure of 2.8%.
1.2%
Lower than 65% 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 Bow Bowing [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10524/bow-bowing/topic/community