18.8% ▼ -27.8%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.1%
- 2016: 26.3%
- 2021: 18.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Quirindi · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Quirindi
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement in Quirindi has remained steady, with a strong local spirit of helping out. Roughly 18.8% of residents volunteer their time, a figure that sits well above the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 18.8% of people giving their time. This is well above the 14.1% seen across Australia and the 13.0% across New South Wales.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is a regular part of life for 13.5% of residents, which is a little above the national figure. This includes 24.2% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, though the 22.5% of people caring for children unpaid is well below the Australian average.
13.5% ▲ +5.4%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 12.8%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.5% ▼ -9.5%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.8%
- 2016: 25.5%
- 2021: 22.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.2% ▼ -10.2%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.9%
- 2016: 24.6%
- 2021: 24.2%
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.
Defence service is about the same as the rest of the country, with 2.8% of the population having served in the Defence Force.
2.8%
Higher than 52% 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 Quirindi [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13314/quirindi/topic/community