18.9% —
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 29.7%
- 2021: 18.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Gurley · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Gurley
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Gurley shows mixed levels of community involvement, with some roles far more common than in other areas. While volunteering is strong, those providing unpaid care for others stand out as a particularly high group for the region.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Nearly 19% of people in Gurley volunteer, a figure that is well above both the New South Wales rate of 13.0% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid carers are much more common here than in most areas, sitting well above the national figure of 11.9%. In contrast, people doing 15 or more hours of housework are much rarer, at 15.3%, which is well below the Australian average of 20.7%.
15.3% —
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 15.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.5% —
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 28.6%
- 2021: 23.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
15.3% —
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.8%
- 2021: 15.3%
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.
About 3.1% of residents have served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the New South Wales and Australian figures.
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 Gurley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11824/gurley/topic/community