15.0% —
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Thredbo · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Thredbo
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement in Thredbo has remained steady, with 15% of residents volunteering their time. This is about the same as the national figure, though the area sees much lower levels of unpaid care and housework than other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 15% of people in Thredbo volunteer, which is a little above the New South Wales figure of 13% and roughly equal to the national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is far less common here than elsewhere. Only 13.6% of people care for children unpaid, and just 5.4% provide other unpaid care or do more than 15 hours of housework, both of which are far below national figures.
5.4% —
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
13.6% —
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
5.4% —
Lower than 98% 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.
Only 0.8% of residents have served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the New South Wales rate of 2.3% and the Australian figure of 2.8%.
0.8%
Lower than 69% 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 Thredbo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13868/thredbo/topic/community