9.6% ▼ -60.5%
Lower than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 24.3%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Brewarrina · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Brewarrina
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far fewer people in Brewarrina (L) volunteer or provide unpaid care compared to most other similar areas. Only 9.6% of the community volunteers, which is well below the national figure. These trends are part of a wider decline in local community participation over the last decade.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering in Brewarrina (L) has fallen sharply, dropping 15 percentage points since 2011 to just 9.6%. This is well below the 13% seen across New South Wales.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care and housework are much less common here than in the rest of the country. Only 7% of people provide unpaid care and 11.7% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, both of which are among the lowest rates for similar areas.
7.0% ▼ -40.6%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.9% ▼ -34.9%
Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 30.6%
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 19.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
11.7% ▼ -50.2%
Lower than 94% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.5%
- 2016: 20.2%
- 2021: 11.7%
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 1.6%. This is much lower than most other areas and a little below the Australian figure of 2.8%.
1.6%
Lower 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 Brewarrina [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121013/brewarrina/topic/community