13.2% ▼ -26.4%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.9%
- 2016: 21.5%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Spring Grove · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Spring Grove
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Similar rates of volunteering and care define the community in Spring Grove, where 13.2% of people give their time to help others. This level of engagement is about the same as the figures for both New South Wales and Australia.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 13.2% of people in Spring Grove volunteer, which is much lower than most similar areas but roughly the same as the national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 12.7% of people providing care and 25.9% looking after children. A little more than one in five people (22.5%) do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, which is a little above the state and national figures.
12.7% ▼ -31.9%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.7%
- 2016: 11.0%
- 2021: 12.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.9% ▼ -23.7%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.0%
- 2016: 37.6%
- 2021: 25.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.5% ▼ -22.5%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.1%
- 2016: 30.1%
- 2021: 22.5%
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 seen in 3.1% of the population, a result that is around the middle for similar areas and about the same as the Australian average.
3.1%
Higher than 57% 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 Spring Grove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13630/spring-grove/topic/community