17.3% ▼ -28.6%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.3%
- 2016: 24.5%
- 2021: 17.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
King Creek · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in King Creek
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A stronger spirit of volunteering and care has emerged in King Creek since the last census. Residents are far more likely to provide unpaid help at home or in the community than people in the rest of the state.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.3% of people in King Creek volunteer, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common here, with 29.3% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, a figure well above the 20.7% national average. This is consistent with the fact that 30.3% of residents provide unpaid childcare, which is much higher than in most other areas.
13.2% ▼ -6.5%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 12.7%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.3% ▲ +4.7%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.9%
- 2016: 29.3%
- 2021: 30.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
29.3% ▼ -7.2%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.6%
- 2016: 30.9%
- 2021: 29.3%
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.
People who have served in the Defence Force make up 3.9% of the population, which is a little above the New South Wales rate of 2.3%.
3.9%
Higher than 70% 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 King Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12153/king-creek/topic/community