8.0% ▼ -29.8%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 12.4%
- 2021: 8.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Currans Hill · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Currans Hill
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Very few people in Currans Hill volunteer their time compared to other areas. While only 8% of residents do volunteer work, the suburb has a very high rate of parents providing unpaid childcare.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 8% of people here volunteer, which is among the lowest for similar areas and well below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
A huge 36.8% of residents provide unpaid childcare, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 25.3%. Other forms of unpaid work are less common, with only 10.9% of people providing general unpaid care, a result slightly below the national figure.
10.9% ▼ -5.4%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.5%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 10.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
36.8% ▼ -11.7%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.7%
- 2016: 38.9%
- 2021: 36.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.0% ▼ -6.2%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.4%
- 2016: 20.2%
- 2021: 22.0%
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 served in the Defence Force make up 1.7% of the population, which is lower than most similar areas and a little below the Australian average of 2.8%.
1.7%
Lower than 62% 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 Currans Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11176/currans-hill/topic/community