11.5% —
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Broadwater · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Broadwater
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A striking number of veterans live in Broadwater, where 7.4% of the population has served in the Defence Force. This figure is well above the New South Wales and national averages, though other forms of community activity like volunteering are less common here.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 11.5% of people in Broadwater volunteer, which is much lower than most similar areas and a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 26.2% of residents provide unpaid childcare—roughly the same as the Australian average—the local area has a much lower rate of people doing 15 or more hours of housework than the rest of the state.
10.7% —
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.2% —
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 44.6%
- 2021: 26.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
14.8% —
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 30.4%
- 2021: 14.8%
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.
The proportion of people who served in the Defence Force is among the highest for areas of this size, sitting well above the New South Wales figure of 2.3%.
7.4%
Higher than 90% 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 Broadwater [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10576/broadwater/topic/community