5.8% ▼ -31.5%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 5.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Claymore · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Claymore
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A gap of over 8 percentage points separates Claymore from the national average in volunteering. While many residents provide unpaid child care, very few people here spend their spare time volunteering for community groups.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 5.8% of people volunteer here, which is among the lowest rates for similar areas and well below the New South Wales figure of 13.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid child care is very common, with 30.4% of residents providing this support, which is well above the national figure of 26.3%. However, 11.7% of people provide general unpaid care, which is about the same as the rest of Australia, and those doing 15 or more hours of housework are slightly below the state average.
11.7% ▼ -10.9%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 11.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.4% ▲ +2.6%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.6%
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 30.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.4% ▼ -8.9%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.3%
- 2016: 15.4%
- 2021: 18.4%
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 have served in the Defence Force make up 0.8% of the population, a little below the 2.8% seen across Australia.
0.8%
Lower than 69% 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 Claymore [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10923/claymore/topic/community