18.6% ▼ -44.5%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.5%
- 2016: 34.8%
- 2021: 18.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Girral · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Girral
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly one in five people in Girral volunteer their time, a figure well above the national average. This reflects a community with strong local involvement, even while other forms of unpaid work remain low.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 18.6% of residents volunteer, which is well above the 14.1% figure for Australia and the 13.0% rate in New South Wales.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 27.9% of people provide unpaid childcare—a little above the national average—the rates for unpaid care and housework are both a little below state and national figures.
9.3% ▼ -53.8%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.1%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 9.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.9% ▼ -0.7%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.1%
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 27.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.6% ▼ -44.9%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.8%
- 2016: 26.1%
- 2021: 18.6%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the national rate of 2.8%.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Girral [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11638/girral/topic/community