11.0% ▼ -37.4%
Lower than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.5%
- 2016: 13.9%
- 2021: 11.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Greenwell Point · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Greenwell Point
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much lower rates of volunteering and childcare work set Greenwell Point apart from the rest of the country. While only 11% of residents volunteer and child care is far less common than usual, there is a notably strong presence of former Defence Force members.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 11% of people in Greenwell Point volunteer, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%. This level of community activity has fallen by 6.6 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is far less common here than in most areas, with only 17.9% of people providing it. However, more people provide other types of unpaid care (14.1%) and a little more than the state average spend 15 or more hours a week on housework.
14.1% ▲ +22.3%
Higher than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.9% ▼ -49.5%
Lower than 82% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 35.4%
- 2016: 36.2%
- 2021: 17.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.0% ▼ -6.9%
Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.8%
- 2016: 25.2%
- 2021: 24.0%
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 much higher proportion of residents have served in the Defence Force compared to other areas, with 6.3% of the population having served—well above the national figure of 2.8%.
6.3%
Higher than 89% 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 Greenwell Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115068/greenwell-point/topic/community