41.9% ▲ +35.8%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.9%
- 2016: 20.4%
- 2021: 41.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Ootha · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Ootha
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 42% of people in Ootha volunteer, a figure far above the national average. This high level of community involvement is mirrored in the home, where a huge proportion of residents provide unpaid care and housework.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 41.9% of people helping out, which is far above the 14.1% seen across Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is a major part of life in Ootha, as 48.4% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly. This is far above the national figure of 20.7%, alongside much higher rates of unpaid childcare (35.5%) and general care (32.3%).
32.3% ▲ +23.7%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.1%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 32.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
35.5% ▼ -20.8%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.8%
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 35.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
48.4% ▲ +43.1%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.8%
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 48.4%
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 Ootha 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 Ootha [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13100/ootha/topic/community