19.0% —
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Joes Box · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Joes Box
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than 19% of people in Joes Box volunteer their time, a figure that sits well above the national average. While very few residents provide unpaid childcare, there is a very high rate of people performing other types of unpaid care and housework.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Nearly one in five people volunteer here, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 13%. This level of community involvement is around the middle for similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very common, with 38.1% of people providing care or doing significant housework, far above the national figure of 11.9%. However, no one in the area reported providing unpaid care for children, which is far below the Australian average of 26.3%.
38.1% —
Higher 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.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
38.1% —
Higher than 93% 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.
No one in Joes Box has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the New South Wales rate of 2.3%.
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 Joes Box [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12045/joes-box/topic/community