26.9% ▼ -4.9%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.3%
- 2016: 40.3%
- 2021: 26.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bostocks Creek · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bostocks Creek
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 27% of people in Bostocks Creek volunteer their time, a rate far above the national figure. This high level of community spirit is a defining feature of the area, though other forms of unpaid work are less common.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 26.9% of residents helping out. This is far above the 14.1% national average and much higher than most similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 20.5% of people provide unpaid care—well above the 11.9% Australian figure—those caring for children unpaid are well below the national average at 19.2%. Meanwhile, 23.1% do 15 or more hours of housework a week, which is a little above the state rate.
20.5% ▲ +154.9%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.0%
- 2016: 16.4%
- 2021: 20.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.2% ▼ -34.8%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.5%
- 2016: 40.3%
- 2021: 19.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.1% ▼ -16.8%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.7%
- 2016: 29.9%
- 2021: 23.1%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the 2.8% seen across Australia.
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).
More for Bostocks Creek
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Community Participation in Bostocks Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20306/bostocks-creek/topic/community