14.0% ▼ -23.1%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.2%
- 2016: 19.4%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
East Gosford · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in East Gosford
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
About a quarter of people in East Gosford provide unpaid childcare, the most common form of community support here. Most other forms of participation, from volunteering to general caregiving, are about the same as the national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering rates are lower than most similar areas, with 14% of residents giving their time. This is about the same as the Australian figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common, with 24.6% of people caring for children, which is about the same as the New South Wales rate. Meanwhile, 22.4% do 15 or more hours of housework, a figure slightly above the national average.
11.4% ▼ -2.6%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 11.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.6% ▲ +0.7%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.4%
- 2016: 26.7%
- 2021: 24.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.4% ▲ +3.4%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.7%
- 2016: 21.0%
- 2021: 22.4%
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.
The proportion of people who have served in the Defence Force is 2.8%, which is about the same as the national figure.
2.8%
Higher than 53% 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 East Gosford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11352/east-gosford/topic/community