17.6% ▼ -27.7%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.3%
- 2016: 22.6%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Grose Wold · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Grose Wold
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More residents in Grose Wold contribute to their community through unpaid work and volunteering than in most similar areas. About 17.6% of people volunteer their time, and a notably high proportion of the population provides unpaid care to others.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 17.6% of residents helping out. This is well above 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 work is very frequent in Grose Wold, where 30.7% of people do 15 or more hours of housework—far above the Australian average of 20.7%. Similarly, 16.1% provide unpaid care and 29.0% care for children, both figures being well above the state average.
16.1% ▲ +22.7%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 16.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
29.0% ▼ -14.5%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.9%
- 2016: 30.0%
- 2021: 29.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.7% ▼ -2.0%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.3%
- 2016: 27.0%
- 2021: 30.7%
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.
Defence service is more common here than in most areas, with 3.9% of residents having served. This is a little above the 2.3% seen across New South Wales.
3.9%
Higher than 70% 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 Wold [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11792/grose-wold/topic/community