7.7% ▼ -11.5%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 15.7%
- 2021: 7.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Cabbage Tree Island · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Cabbage Tree Island
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
About 34.6% of people provide unpaid child care on Cabbage Tree Island, a figure well above the national average. This high level of family care stands in contrast to very low rates of community volunteering and housework.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is rare here, with only 7.7% of people helping out. This is well below the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and among the lowest rates for similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 17.3% of residents provide some form of unpaid care, far fewer do heavy housework, with only 7.7% spending 15 or more hours a week on chores. This housework rate is far below the national figure of 20.7%.
17.3% ▲ +3.8%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.7%
- 2016: 17.6%
- 2021: 17.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
34.6% ▲ +173.1%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 34.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
7.7% ▼ -40.2%
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 7.7%
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 Australian average 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 Cabbage Tree Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10736/cabbage-tree-island/topic/community