16.5% —
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 16.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Dirty Creek · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Dirty Creek
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A higher share of people volunteer in Dirty Creek than across the state, though few of its residents have served in the military. While 16.5% of the community give their time to volunteering, other forms of unpaid work are less common here than in most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is more common in Dirty Creek than in New South Wales, with 16.5% of people helping out, which is a little above the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is less common here, with only 16.5% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework and 20.3% caring for children, both of which are well below the national figures. However, the 12.7% of people providing some form of unpaid care is a little above the New South Wales rate.
12.7% —
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 16.9%
- 2021: 12.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.3% —
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 26.2%
- 2021: 20.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
16.5% —
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 18.5%
- 2021: 16.5%
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.
No one in Dirty Creek has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is a little below both the state and national averages.
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 Dirty Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11263/dirty-creek/topic/community