15.3% ▼ -18.8%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.8%
- 2016: 17.7%
- 2021: 15.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bulahdelah · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bulahdelah
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people provide unpaid care in Bulahdelah than in most other similar areas. While 15.9% of the community look after others without pay, child care is much less common here than across the rest of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 15.3% of people volunteer, which is a little above the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 15.9% of people providing support and 27.0% doing at least 15 hours of housework—both well above the national figures. In contrast, the 18.7% of people caring for children is well below the Australian average of 26.3%.
15.9% ▲ +29.3%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 14.2%
- 2021: 15.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
18.7% ▼ -20.0%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.3%
- 2016: 19.5%
- 2021: 18.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.0% ▲ +1.6%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.6%
- 2016: 26.3%
- 2021: 27.0%
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.
A higher than usual 4.0% of residents have served in the Defence Force, which is a little above the 2.3% seen across New South Wales.
4.0%
Higher than 72% 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 Bulahdelah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10646/bulahdelah/topic/community