18.6% ▼ -27.5%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.6%
- 2016: 28.0%
- 2021: 18.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Crookwell · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Crookwell
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Crookwell give their time to help others, making it a place where community spirit is high. This is seen in the high rate of volunteers and those providing unpaid care compared to the rest of the state.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 18.6% of people helping out, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 13.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is a significant part of life for 14.6% of residents, a rate higher than most similar areas. While 24.5% of people do 15 or more hours of housework—well above the national figure—far fewer people provide unpaid childcare here than in the rest of the state.
14.6% ▲ +9.7%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 14.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.7% ▼ -4.6%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.7%
- 2016: 25.1%
- 2021: 21.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.5% ▼ -7.8%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.6%
- 2016: 27.3%
- 2021: 24.5%
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.
About 3.1% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
3.1%
Higher than 57% 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 Crookwell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11124/crookwell/topic/community