18.5% ▲ +9.1%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.9%
- 2016: 23.3%
- 2021: 18.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Carrs Creek · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Carrs Creek
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly one in five people in Carrs Creek give their time to volunteer, making it a community where local contribution is much more common than the national figure. This spirit of helping others extends into the home, where residents are more likely to provide unpaid care than people in most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is a significant part of life here, with 18.5% of people helping out. This is well above the New South Wales figure of 13% and the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care is more common here than in most areas, with 14.4% of people stepping up. This includes 26.7% of residents caring for children unpaid, which is a little above the state average.
14.4% ▲ +17.1%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 22.3%
- 2021: 14.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.7% ▼ -3.9%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.8%
- 2016: 28.2%
- 2021: 26.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.9% ▼ -16.0%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.1%
- 2016: 31.1%
- 2021: 21.9%
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.
A higher number of people have served in the Defence Force compared to most areas, at 3.4%. This is a little above the New South Wales figure of 2.3%.
3.4%
Higher than 63% 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 Carrs Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10833/carrs-creek/topic/community