19.4% ▼ -40.8%
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 32.8%
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 19.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Clunes · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Clunes
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
About 30.1% of people in Clunes (L) (NSW) provide unpaid childcare, which is well above the national figure. This community shows a strong trend of helping others, with high rates of unpaid housework and volunteering, though these activities have declined since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Nearly one in five people (19.4%) volunteer here, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 13%. However, this has dropped 13 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common, with 28.1% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, well above the national figure of 20.7%. Meanwhile, the 11.8% of people providing unpaid care is about the same as the Australian average.
11.8% ▲ +18.8%
Lower than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.1% ▼ -5.7%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 32.0%
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 30.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
28.1% ▼ -17.0%
Higher than 82% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 33.9%
- 2016: 26.4%
- 2021: 28.1%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 2.5% of the population, which is much lower than most similar areas.
2.5%
Lower than 78% 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 Clunes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121020/clunes/topic/community