12.8% ▼ -21.8%
Lower than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.4%
- 2016: 25.1%
- 2021: 12.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Junee · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Junee
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Only 10% of people in Junee provide unpaid care, a figure that is much lower than most similar areas. This local trend of lower-than-average community participation extends across volunteering and housework, with most numbers sitting below the state and national levels.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering has dropped to 12.8% since 2011, which is much lower than most other areas and slightly below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is uncommon here; only 19.6% of people care for children and 16.9% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, both of which are well below the New South Wales figures.
10.0% ▼ -3.3%
Lower than 83% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.3%
- 2016: 13.8%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.6% ▼ -16.8%
Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.5%
- 2016: 22.8%
- 2021: 19.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
16.9% ▼ -20.0%
Lower than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.2%
- 2016: 25.8%
- 2021: 16.9%
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.
About 2.9% of residents have served in the Defence Force, a rate that is lower than most areas but about the same as the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
2.9%
Lower than 68% 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 Junee [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115089/junee/topic/community