48.4% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Guntawang · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Guntawang
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly half of all residents in Guntawang give their time to volunteering, making it a place where community contribution is far more common than in most of the country. This spirit of service is seen in the high rates of unpaid childcare and a strong history of military service.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is exceptionally common here, with 48.4% of people helping out, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 13.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is very frequent at 48.4%, far above the national figure of 26.3%. However, no one in the area provides other types of unpaid care, and the 19.4% who do 15 or more hours of housework is a little below the Australian average.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
48.4% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.4% —
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
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 has a strong presence in Guntawang, where 9.7% of people have served, a figure well above the 2.8% seen across Australia.
9.7%
Higher than 95% 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 Guntawang [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11823/guntawang/topic/community