21.7% —
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Curlew Waters · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Curlew Waters
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Curlew Waters volunteer their time, a rate well above the national figure. This high level of community spirit defines the area, even though very few residents are juggling the demands of unpaid childcare or heavy housework.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 21.7% of people helping out. This is well above the 13% seen in New South Wales and the 14.1% average for Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Only 13% of residents provide unpaid childcare or do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, both figures being far below state and national levels. However, 13% of people provide some form of unpaid care, which is a little above the Australian average of 11.9%.
13.0% —
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
13.0% —
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
13.0% —
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did 15 hours or more of unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census.
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 Curlew Waters [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11169/curlew-waters/topic/community