8.5% ▼ -29.5%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 14.5%
- 2021: 8.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Chain Valley Bay · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Chain Valley Bay
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Chain Valley Bay is marked by a strong connection to military service and low levels of local volunteering. While 4.9% of residents have served in the Defence Force, only 8.5% of the community spends time volunteering, which is well below the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates are among the lowest for areas of this size, with only 8.5% of people participating compared to 14.1% across Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Very few people here provide unpaid childcare at 15.1%, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 25.3%. Meanwhile, 22.6% do at least 15 hours of housework a week, and 11.8% provide other unpaid care, both of which are about the same as the national figures.
11.8% ▼ -18.9%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
15.1% ▼ -33.6%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.8%
- 2016: 20.5%
- 2021: 15.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.6% ▼ -19.3%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.0%
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 22.6%
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.
Defence service is much more common here than in most areas, with 4.9% of residents having served in the Defence Force.
4.9%
Higher than 79% 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 Chain Valley Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10879/chain-valley-bay/topic/community