12.1% ▼ -32.0%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.9%
- 2016: 14.6%
- 2021: 12.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Shannon Brook · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Shannon Brook
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people provide unpaid care in Shannon Brook than the national average, with 28.6% of residents helping others for free. This community is marked by high levels of family and care responsibilities, though it has very few former defence force members.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is less common here than in most areas, with 12.1% of people helping out, which is a little below the Australian figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Care duties are very common, as 40% of people look after children unpaid, a figure far above the New South Wales average of 25.3%. This helps explain why 28.6% of residents provide general unpaid care, which is far above the national figure.
28.6% ▲ +73.2%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.5%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 28.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
40.0% ▲ +25.8%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.8%
- 2016: 21.5%
- 2021: 40.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.0% ▼ -23.4%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.7%
- 2016: 25.7%
- 2021: 25.0%
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 area 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 Shannon Brook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13540/shannon-brook/topic/community