14.0% ▼ -5.3%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.8%
- 2016: 21.6%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Batlow · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Batlow
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly one in five people in Batlow provide unpaid child care, making it the most common form of community contribution here. While volunteer rates remain steady, the number of people providing unpaid care and doing housework has fallen since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14% of residents volunteer, which is about the same as the national figure and barely changed since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care has declined across the board, with the proportion of people doing 15 or more hours of housework falling 10 points since 2011 to 19.7%. Those caring for children unpaid (19.9%) and those providing general unpaid care (10.5%) are both much lower than in most other areas.
10.5% ▼ -21.1%
Lower than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 12.2%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.9% ▼ -23.6%
Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.0%
- 2016: 27.1%
- 2021: 19.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.7% ▼ -34.3%
Lower than 82% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 30.0%
- 2016: 23.9%
- 2021: 19.7%
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.
A small number of residents have served in the Defence Force, at 2.7%, which is about the same as the New South Wales and Australian figures.
2.7%
Lower than 73% of urban centre 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 Batlow [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115012/batlow/topic/community