19.0% ▼ -18.9%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.4%
- 2016: 26.1%
- 2021: 19.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Junction Hill · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Junction Hill
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 30% of people in Junction Hill provide unpaid childcare, marking this as a place with high levels of community and family support. Residents are more likely to volunteer, care for others, and have served in the defence force than people in other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 19% of people helping out, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very frequent in this area. About 30.2% of people do 15 or more hours of housework a week, which is well above the NSW figure of 21.2%, while 15.8% provide other forms of unpaid care.
15.8% ▲ +9.0%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 15.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
28.2% ▲ +8.7%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.0%
- 2016: 28.7%
- 2021: 28.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.2% ▼ -3.7%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.4%
- 2016: 30.7%
- 2021: 30.2%
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.
The proportion of people who served in the Defence Force is 4.9%, which is a little above the Australian average of 2.8% and much higher than most similar areas.
4.9%
Higher than 80% 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 Junction Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12053/junction-hill/topic/community