28.2% —
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 36.4%
- 2021: 28.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Dry Creek · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Dry Creek
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 41% of people in Dry Creek provide unpaid child care, one of the highest rates for this type of work in the country. This is a community where residents are far more likely to volunteer and help others than people in other parts of Australia.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 28.2% of people giving their time. This is far above the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid child care is very frequent at 41.0%, which is far above the Australian figure of 26.3%. While 25.6% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, those providing other types of unpaid care are a little below the national figure at 10.3%.
10.3% —
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 36.4%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
41.0% —
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 21.2%
- 2021: 41.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.6% —
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 33.3%
- 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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the New South Wales rate of 2.3%.
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 Dry Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11297/dry-creek/topic/community