5.2% ▼ -37.4%
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 5.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Greenfield Park · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Greenfield Park
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Only 12.9% of people in Greenfield Park provide unpaid care, which is about the same as the national figure. This area has very low levels of volunteering and unpaid childcare compared to other Australian places.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 5.2% of residents volunteer, a figure that is well below the national average of 14.1% and among the lowest for similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care for children (17.8%) and doing 15 or more hours of housework (15.7%) are both much lower than most areas. However, the total share of people providing any unpaid care is 12.9%, which is a little above the New South Wales figure.
12.9% ▲ +6.7%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 12.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.8% ▼ -28.3%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.8%
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 17.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
15.7% ▼ -9.2%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.3%
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 15.7%
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 very small number of residents have served in the Defence Force, at just 0.2%, which is a little below the national figure of 2.8%.
0.2%
Lower 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 Greenfield Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11767/greenfield-park/topic/community