18.8% ▼ -36.5%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.5%
- 2016: 30.4%
- 2021: 18.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Currabubula · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Currabubula
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly one in five people in Currabubula volunteer, showing a strong local commitment to helping others. This community is far more likely to volunteer than the average person in New South Wales or across Australia.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 18.8% of residents volunteer their time, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Care for children is common here, with 31.0% of people providing unpaid childcare, a figure well above the national average of 26.3%. While 25.6% also do significant unpaid housework, the 10.1% who provide other unpaid care is a little below the Australian figure of 11.9%.
10.1% ▼ -14.2%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 10.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
31.0% ▲ +12.3%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.7%
- 2016: 32.7%
- 2021: 31.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.6% ▼ -22.8%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.2%
- 2016: 22.4%
- 2021: 25.6%
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.
A small number of residents have served in the Defence Force, at 1.4%, which is a little below the national figure of 2.8%.
1.4%
Lower than 64% 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 Currabubula [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11173/currabubula/topic/community