25.9% —
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Broughams Gate · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Broughams Gate
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement has shifted over time, with Broughams Gate now seeing a very high level of local contribution. About 26% of people here volunteer, which is far above the national figure of 14.1%. This high rate of volunteering marks the area as much more active than most similar places.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 25.9% of residents giving their time. This is far above the New South Wales figure of 13.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is a major part of life here, as 44.4% of people do 15 or more hours of housework—far above the 20.7% national average. This is alongside a higher-than-usual 29.6% of people caring for children unpaid, though no one in the area provides other forms of unpaid care.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
29.6% —
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
44.4% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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 Broughams Gate has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the national rate of 2.8%.
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 Broughams Gate [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10601/broughams-gate/topic/community