17.6% ▼ -0.2%
Higher than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.7%
- 2016: 23.3%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Ocean Shores · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Ocean Shores
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Volunteer rates have remained steady since 2011 in Ocean Shores, where nearly 18% of the population gives their time to others. This level of community involvement is well above both the state and national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.6% of residents volunteer, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the Australian average of 14.1%. This has barely changed over the last decade.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common, with 13.4% of people providing care—a figure that rose since 2011. While 26.1% look after children unpaid, the proportion of people doing 15 or more hours of housework is lower than in most areas.
13.4% ▲ +15.0%
Higher than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.1% ▼ -17.7%
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 31.7%
- 2016: 23.2%
- 2021: 26.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.7% ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.7%
- 2016: 23.9%
- 2021: 22.7%
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.
Very few residents have served in the Defence Force, at just 2.2%. This is much lower than most other areas and slightly below the national figure of 2.8%.
2.2%
Lower than 83% 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 Ocean Shores [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115115/ocean-shores/topic/community