10.4% —
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Gables · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Gables
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A massive 45.2% of people in Gables provide unpaid childcare, a figure far above the national average. This highlights a community heavily focused on family care, though other forms of community contribution are less common here.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 10.4% of residents volunteer their time, which is much lower than most similar areas and well below the Australian figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While childcare is a major focus, only 7.5% of people provide general unpaid care, which is well below the state and national figures. About 24.3% of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, a rate well above the national average.
7.5% —
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
45.2% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.3% —
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Very few residents have served in the Defence Force, with only 0.7% doing so, which is a little below the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
0.7%
Lower than 70% 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 Gables [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11580/gables/topic/community