15.3% ▼ -49.0%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.9%
- 2016: 27.1%
- 2021: 15.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Calimo · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Calimo
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community participation in Calimo has remained steady over the last decade. While few residents have a history of military service, about 15% of the local population helps out as volunteers. This is a little above the national figure of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Roughly 15.3% of people in Calimo volunteer their time. This is a little above both the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the Australian average of 14.1%, though it is lower than most similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
About 27.1% of people provide unpaid childcare, and 23.7% do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly, which is well above the national figure of 20.7%. However, the proportion of people providing other unpaid care is far below the state and national figures, sitting at 0.0%.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.7%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.1% ▲ +15.0%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.6%
- 2016: 15.3%
- 2021: 27.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.7% ▼ -7.0%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.5%
- 2016: 37.3%
- 2021: 23.7%
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 Calimo has served in the Defence Force. This is lower than most areas and a little below the New South Wales and Australian figures of 2.3% and 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 Calimo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10753/calimo/topic/community