15.9% ▼ -24.0%
Lower than 51% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 20.9%
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 15.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bounded Locality · Section of State
Community Participation in Bounded Locality
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Roughly 23.3% of people in Bounded Locality provide unpaid childcare, making it one of the most common forms of community contribution here. While many residents help others, the area has seen a decline in traditional volunteering over the last decade. A notably high proportion of the population has served in the Defence Force.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 15.9% of people volunteer, which is a little above the national figure of 14.1%. This is a drop from 2011, when 20.9% of the community volunteered.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid housework is common here, with 24.3% of people spending 15 or more hours a week on it, well above the Australian figure of 20.7%. Meanwhile, 12.7% provide general unpaid care, a figure that has risen slightly since 2011.
12.7% ▲ +10.7%
Higher than 69% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 11.5%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 12.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.3% ▼ -17.0%
Lower than 62% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 28.1%
- 2016: 25.6%
- 2021: 23.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.3% ▼ -12.3%
Higher than 80% of section of state areas.
- 2011: 27.7%
- 2016: 25.3%
- 2021: 24.3%
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 much more common here than in most similar areas, with 4.7% of people having served in the Defence Force compared to 2.8% nationally.
4.7%
Higher than 87% of section of state 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 Bounded Locality [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sos/SOS32/bounded-locality/topic/community