6.1% ▼ -66.7%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.4%
- 2016: 17.9%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Goodooga · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Goodooga
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far fewer people in Goodooga take part in community volunteering and unpaid care than the national average. Only 6.1% of residents volunteer, which is well below the Australian figure of 14.1%. This pattern of low community participation extends to both unpaid care and military service.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is among the lowest of similar areas, with only 6.1% of people helping out, well below the New South Wales figure of 13.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 27.4% of people do 15 or more hours of housework—well above the national figure of 20.7%—very few provide other unpaid care. Only 1.7% provide unpaid care, which is far below the Australian average of 11.9%, and the 14.0% who care for children unpaid is also far below the national rate.
1.7% ▼ -76.3%
Lower than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 1.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
14.0% ▼ -49.1%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.5%
- 2016: 21.7%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.4% ▲ +53.9%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.8%
- 2016: 11.4%
- 2021: 27.4%
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 figure 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 Goodooga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11708/goodooga/topic/community