21.9% ▼ -25.9%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.5%
- 2021: 21.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Brookdale · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Brookdale
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong spirit of helping others defines daily life in Brookdale, where 34.4% of people provide unpaid care. This level of community support is far above both the state and national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 21.9% of residents giving their time. This is well above the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very frequent, as 43.8% of people care for children and 34.4% provide other unpaid care, both figures far above the national average. Interestingly, the proportion of people doing 15 or more hours of housework is among the lowest at 12.5%.
34.4% ▲ +134.0%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.7%
- 2021: 34.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
43.8% ▲ +38.4%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.6%
- 2021: 43.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
12.5% ▼ -63.9%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.6%
- 2021: 12.5%
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 New South Wales figure of 2.3%.
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 Brookdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10592/brookdale/topic/community