12.6% ▼ -46.4%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.5%
- 2016: 26.1%
- 2021: 12.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Eumungerie · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Eumungerie
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement in Eumungerie has shifted since 2011, with a notable number of residents now serving in the Defence Force. While volunteering is relatively low, more people than usual spend their time on unpaid housework. These figures show a community where home-based duties and military service are more common than formal volunteering.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 12.6% of people in Eumungerie volunteer, which is much lower than most similar areas and a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid housework is common here, with 26.8% of people doing 15 or more hours a week, which is well above the Australian figure of 20.7%. This happens alongside lower rates of people providing general unpaid care (9.0%) or caring for children (23.5%).
9.0% ▲ +4.0%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 14.4%
- 2021: 9.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.5% ▲ +11.8%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.1%
- 2016: 25.4%
- 2021: 23.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.8% ▼ -0.4%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.9%
- 2016: 29.9%
- 2021: 26.8%
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.
A much higher proportion of residents have served in the Defence Force compared to most areas, with 4.9% of people having served, which is a little above the New South Wales figure of 2.3%.
4.9%
Higher than 79% 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 Eumungerie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11459/eumungerie/topic/community