9.8% ▼ -25.6%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 14.6%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bowenfels · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bowenfels
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Fewer people volunteer or provide unpaid care in Bowenfels than in most other Australian areas. Only 9.8% of residents volunteer, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%. This trend of lower community and care activity is seen across several different types of unpaid work.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Just 9.8% of people in Bowenfels volunteer, a figure that is well below the New South Wales average of 13.0% and much lower than most similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is less common here than elsewhere. Only 22.5% of people care for children unpaid, which is well below the Australian average of 26.3%, while 10.6% provide other types of unpaid care.
10.6% ▲ +6.4%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 11.0%
- 2021: 10.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.5% ▼ -10.1%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 24.8%
- 2021: 22.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.2% ▼ -9.4%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.3%
- 2016: 21.8%
- 2021: 20.2%
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 2.5% of residents have served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the 2.3% seen across New South Wales.
2.5%
Lower than 53% 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 Bowenfels [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10527/bowenfels/topic/community