8.5% ▼ -27.9%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 12.7%
- 2021: 8.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Ropes Crossing · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Ropes Crossing
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 40% of people in Ropes Crossing provide unpaid childcare, a figure far above both the state and national averages. This high rate of parenting dominates the local profile of community contribution, while other forms of volunteering and service are much less common here.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 8.5% of residents volunteer, which is among the lowest rates for similar areas and well below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While a huge 39.7% of people care for children unpaid, only 8.9% provide other types of unpaid care, which is well below the Australian average. Those doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly sit at 21.4%, about the same as the rest of the country.
8.9% ▼ -15.3%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.5%
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 8.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
39.7% ▲ +9.0%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.4%
- 2016: 41.0%
- 2021: 39.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.4% ▲ +11.5%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.2%
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 21.4%
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.
Defence service is less common here than in most areas, with 1.6% of the population having served in the Defence Force.
1.6%
Lower than 62% 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 Ropes Crossing [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13411/ropes-crossing/topic/community