20.0% —
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Regans Ford · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Regans Ford
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A striking gap exists between Regans Ford and the rest of the country when it comes to how people spend their spare time. While 20% of residents volunteer—well above the national figure—very few provide unpaid care for others. It is a community where helping out in the public sphere is common, but formal caregiving is rare.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
One in five people in Regans Ford volunteer, which is well above the 14.1% seen across Australia and higher than most similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid housework is very common here, with 35% of people spending 15 or more hours a week on it, far above the national figure of 20.7%. In contrast, 0% of residents provide unpaid care, which is far below both the state and national averages.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.0% —
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
35.0% —
Higher than 89% 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 Regans Ford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51292/regans-ford/topic/community