11.1% —
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Shark Creek · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Shark Creek
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Shark Creek involves a high level of home-based support, with 14.8% of people providing unpaid care. This is well above the New South Wales figure, though very few residents have served in the Defence Force.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 11.1% of people here volunteer, which is much lower than most areas and well below the Australian figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid housework is very common, with 33.3% of residents spending 15 or more hours a week on it—far above the national figure of 20.7%. This sits alongside a high rate of unpaid care, though the proportion of people caring for children unpaid is far below the national average at 11.1%.
14.8% —
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
11.1% —
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
33.3% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
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 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 Shark Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13544/shark-creek/topic/community