19.0% ▼ -19.5%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.6%
- 2016: 25.8%
- 2021: 19.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Springwood · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Springwood
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 28% of people in Springwood put in 15 or more hours of unpaid housework each week, a figure well above the national average. This high level of domestic contribution is part of a broader trend of community involvement in the area. Residents are more likely to volunteer and provide unpaid care than people in other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 19.0% of people helping out. This is well above the 14.1% national figure and the 13.0% seen across New South Wales.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is frequent in Springwood, where 13.7% of people provide care and 27.7% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, both of which are well above state and national levels. About 26.1% of residents provide unpaid childcare, which is about the same as the Australian average.
13.7% ▲ +5.4%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 13.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.1% ▼ -14.8%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.6%
- 2016: 30.3%
- 2021: 26.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.7% ▲ +1.8%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.2%
- 2016: 24.6%
- 2021: 27.7%
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.
A higher than usual proportion of the population has served in the Defence Force, with 3.6% of residents having this experience. This is a little above the New South Wales figure of 2.3%.
3.6%
Higher than 66% 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 Springwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13644/springwood/topic/community