25.0% ▼ -28.3%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.9%
- 2016: 30.0%
- 2021: 25.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Shannons Flat · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Shannons Flat
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A quarter of residents in Shannons Flat now volunteer, a figure that has grown over time to become far higher than most other areas. This strong community spirit is paired with a higher-than-average number of former Defence Force members.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 25.0% of people helping out. This is far above the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 12.5% of people provide some form of unpaid care, which is about the same as the national figure, those caring for children unpaid (11.1%) and those doing heavy housework (11.1%) are both far below state and national levels.
12.5% ▲ +9.4%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 12.9%
- 2021: 12.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
11.1% ▼ -60.8%
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.3%
- 2016: 31.4%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
11.1% ▼ -53.4%
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.9%
- 2016: 28.6%
- 2021: 11.1%
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.
Serving in the Defence Force is more common here than elsewhere, with 4.2% of the population having served. This is a little above the 2.3% seen across New South Wales.
4.2%
Higher than 74% 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 Shannons Flat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13543/shannons-flat/topic/community