17.6% —
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 32.1%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Goobarragandra · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Goobarragandra
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than 38% of people in Goobarragandra do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework each week. This is a community where residents contribute significantly to their homes and others through unpaid work, volunteering, and military service.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 17.6% of residents helping out, which is well above both the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very high in the area; 16.2% of people provide care and 38.2% do significant housework, a figure far above the national rate of 20.7%. Meanwhile, 25.0% of people care for children unpaid, which is about the same as the state average.
16.2% —
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 16.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.0% —
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 25.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
38.2% —
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 39.3%
- 2021: 38.2%
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.
Military service is much more common here than in most areas, with 5.6% of people having served in the Defence Force, well above the 2.3% seen across New South Wales.
5.6%
Higher than 86% 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 Goobarragandra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11703/goobarragandra/topic/community