16.3% ▼ -26.1%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.0%
- 2016: 28.2%
- 2021: 16.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Brownlow Hill · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Brownlow Hill
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much higher rates of unpaid home and childcare set Brownlow Hill apart from the rest of the state. While many residents contribute to the home, very few people here have served in the Defence Force.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common in the area, with 16.3% of people helping out. This is well above the New South Wales figure of 13.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Nearly 30% of people provide unpaid childcare, and 27.9% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, both of which are well above the national figures. However, those providing other types of unpaid care are much lower than in most areas, at just 8.3%.
8.3% ▼ -28.1%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 8.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
29.6% ▲ +31.8%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.4%
- 2016: 29.7%
- 2021: 29.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.9% ▲ +32.1%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.1%
- 2016: 21.9%
- 2021: 27.9%
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 area has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the national figure 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 Brownlow Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10606/brownlow-hill/topic/community