15.6% ▼ -26.3%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.2%
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 15.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bridges · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bridges
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A higher than usual proportion of residents provide unpaid care in Bridges, with 13.9% of the community stepping up to help others. While volunteering is slightly more common here than across Australia, the area is mostly defined by these strong patterns of home-based support and care.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 15.6% of people in Bridges volunteer, which is a little above the national and state figures of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Support at home is common, with 24.9% of people doing 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, a figure well above the national average of 20.7%. This helps explain why the 13.9% of people providing unpaid care is higher than in most other areas.
13.9% ▲ +17.6%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 13.4%
- 2021: 13.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.6% ▼ -17.5%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.2%
- 2016: 29.7%
- 2021: 26.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.9% ▼ -20.1%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.2%
- 2016: 25.4%
- 2021: 24.9%
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 more common here than in most areas, with 3.3% of residents having served in the Defence Force.
3.3%
Higher than 60% 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 Bridges [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30370/bridges/topic/community