15.0% —
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Epsom · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Epsom
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
High levels of unpaid care define the community in Epsom, where 20% of people provide unpaid support to others. This is among the highest rates for similar areas and sits well above both the state and national figures. While many help others in the home, few do so through formal volunteering.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 15% of people in Epsom volunteer, which is lower than most similar areas. This figure is about the same as the 14.1% recorded for Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
One in five people provide unpaid care, which is well above the national figure of 11.9%. While 25% of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, only 15% provide unpaid childcare, a rate far below the 26.3% seen across Australia.
20.0% —
Higher 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.
15.0% —
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.0% —
Higher than 55% 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.
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 Epsom [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30980/epsom/topic/community