36.2% —
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.9%
- 2021: 36.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Guerilla Bay · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Guerilla Bay
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A massive 36.2% of people in Guerilla Bay volunteer, which is far above the 14.1% national figure. This creates a community where residents are much more likely to give their time to others than people in most other parts of Australia.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 36.2% of residents helping out. This is far above the New South Wales rate of 13.0% and among the highest levels of participation for similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While only 10.3% of people provide unpaid childcare—far below the national figure of 26.3%—many others give their time at home. About 43.1% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, and 27.6% provide some form of unpaid care, both far above state and national levels.
27.6% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 27.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
10.3% —
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.4%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
43.1% —
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 27.3%
- 2021: 43.1%
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 New South Wales rate of 2.3% and the own Australian 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 Guerilla Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11795/guerilla-bay/topic/community