15.5% ▼ -27.8%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.5%
- 2016: 24.6%
- 2021: 15.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Grose Vale · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Grose Vale
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A far higher rate of unpaid housework than the national figure defines community life in Grose Vale. While 31.9% of residents spend 15 or more hours a week on housework, other forms of community contribution remain closer to state and national norms.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 15.5% of people in Grose Vale volunteer, which is a little above the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Caregiving is common here, with 14.8% providing unpaid care, well above the state average. This is alongside a high 31.9% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework, which is far above the national figure of 20.7%.
14.8% ▼ -1.9%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.1%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.3% ▼ -19.9%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.6%
- 2016: 31.5%
- 2021: 25.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
31.9% ▲ +6.2%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.0%
- 2016: 26.9%
- 2021: 31.9%
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.
Defence service is around the middle for its level, with 3.1% of the population having served, which is about the same as the Australian figure of 2.8%.
3.1%
Higher than 57% 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 Grose Vale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11791/grose-vale/topic/community