8.6% ▼ -2.3%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 8.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Purfleet · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Purfleet
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Fewer people in Purfleet engage in unpaid work and volunteering compared to similar areas. Only 8.6% of residents volunteer, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is quite low here, with only 8.6% of people helping out. This is among the lowest rates for similar areas and is well below the New South Wales figure of 13.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care of children is much lower than most areas at 17.3%, and only 16.0% do 15 or more hours of housework. Despite this, the 13.6% of people providing general unpaid care is a little above the national figure of 11.9%.
13.6% ▲ +27.9%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.3% ▼ -38.4%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.1%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 17.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
16.0% ▲ +103.3%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.9%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 16.0%
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 the community has served in the Defence Force. This is lower than most areas and sits a little below the New South Wales figure 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 Purfleet [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13288/purfleet/topic/community