20.4% —
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 20.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Crawford River · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Crawford River
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong spirit of helping others defines Crawford River, where people are far more likely to volunteer and provide care than in most other areas. Roughly one in five residents gives their time to volunteering, which is well above the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 20.4% of people volunteer here, a figure that is well above both the New South Wales average of 13.0% and the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very common, with 22.4% of people providing care and 36.7% doing over 15 hours of housework, both far above the national figures. In contrast, the 14.3% of people caring for children unpaid is far below the Australian average of 26.3%.
22.4% —
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 22.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
14.3% —
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 19.0%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
36.7% —
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 35.7%
- 2021: 36.7%
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 the area has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the state figure of 2.3% and the national figure of 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 Crawford River [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11109/crawford-river/topic/community