8.6% ▼ -25.9%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 14.0%
- 2021: 8.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Charmhaven · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Charmhaven
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A gap of 5.5 percentage points separates the national volunteer rate from Charmhaven, where community participation is notably low. While local volunteering is well below the New South Wales and Australian figures, other forms of unpaid work and service remain typical for the region.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 8.6% of people here volunteer, a figure that is among the lowest for similar areas and well below the New South Wales rate of 13.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common, with 25.4% of residents caring for children and 12.8% providing other unpaid care, both of which are around the middle for this level. A little more than one in five people (22.7%) do at least 15 hours of unpaid housework weekly, slightly above the national figure.
12.8% ▲ +5.7%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.2%
- 2016: 13.4%
- 2021: 12.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.4% ▼ -11.4%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.6%
- 2016: 29.2%
- 2021: 25.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.7% ▼ -11.7%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.8%
- 2016: 23.1%
- 2021: 22.7%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 2.8% of the population, which is about the same as the figures for both New South Wales and Australia.
2.8%
Higher than 53% 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 Charmhaven [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10888/charmhaven/topic/community