14.2% ▼ -22.5%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.3%
- 2016: 18.9%
- 2021: 14.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Erowal Bay · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Erowal Bay
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
About 27.8% of people in Erowal Bay do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework a week, which is well above the national figure. This high level of home-based work sits alongside a strong presence of people providing unpaid care and former defence personnel.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is less common here than in most similar areas, with 14.2% of residents helping out, a figure that is about the same as the Australian average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care is much more common here than in most areas, with 15.8% of people doing so. This is well above the New South Wales figure of 11.5%, while 26.1% of residents provide unpaid childcare, which is about the same as the national average.
15.8% ▲ +31.9%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.0%
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 15.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.1% ▲ +13.6%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.0%
- 2016: 24.4%
- 2021: 26.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.8% ▼ -3.7%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.8%
- 2016: 25.7%
- 2021: 27.8%
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.
Defence service is much more common here than in most similar areas, with 6.5% of people having served, which is well above the national figure of 2.8%.
6.5%
Higher than 88% 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 Erowal Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11439/erowal-bay/topic/community