8.0% ▼ -30.8%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 8.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Eagle Vale · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Eagle Vale
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A gap of over 6 percentage points separates Eagle Vale from the national figure for volunteering. While about 8% of people here volunteer, this is well below the Australian average and among the lowest rates for similar areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 8% of residents volunteer, which is well below both the New South Wales rate of 13% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is common here at 24.7%, a figure about the same as the state and national averages. Other unpaid work is less frequent, with 11.3% providing general unpaid care and 20.3% doing 15 or more hours of housework.
11.3% ▼ -12.2%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 11.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.7% ▼ -19.4%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.7%
- 2016: 30.1%
- 2021: 24.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.3% ▲ +3.8%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.6%
- 2016: 19.3%
- 2021: 20.3%
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 have served in the Defence Force make up 1.7% of the population, which is lower than most 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 Eagle Vale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11344/eagle-vale/topic/community