16.1% ▼ -28.2%
Lower than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.4%
- 2016: 21.2%
- 2021: 16.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Crescent Head · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Crescent Head
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
About 22.8% of people in Crescent Head provide unpaid childcare, making it one of the most common forms of community contribution here. While many residents help out in the community, the number of people volunteering and doing unpaid housework has dropped since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is more common here than in the rest of New South Wales, with 16.1% of people helping out. However, this is 6.3 percentage points lower than it was in 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care for children or others is less common here than in the state and nation, with 12.3% providing general unpaid care. Both childcare and housework contributions have fallen since 2011, with unpaid childcare dropping 14 percentage points.
12.3% ▼ -6.1%
Lower than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 16.0%
- 2021: 12.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.8% ▼ -38.1%
Lower than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 36.8%
- 2016: 31.3%
- 2021: 22.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.0% ▼ -24.1%
Lower than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.9%
- 2016: 25.5%
- 2021: 22.0%
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 little more than the national figure, 3.8% of the population in Crescent Head have served in the Defence Force.
3.8%
Higher than 57% 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 Crescent Head [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121026/crescent-head/topic/community