13.4% ▼ -8.8%
Lower than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.7%
- 2016: 32.5%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Captains Flat · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Captains Flat
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A decline in local volunteering has marked the recent years in Captains Flat, where 13.4% of residents now give their time. While this is about the same as the national figure, it reflects a drop of 1.3 percentage points since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
The number of volunteers sits at 13.4%, which is lower than most similar areas and slightly down from 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
About 25% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly, a figure well above the national average. Meanwhile, those providing unpaid care are much lower than most areas at 9.1%, while 25% of residents care for children unpaid.
9.1% ▲ +12.9%
Lower than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 18.4%
- 2021: 9.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.0% ▼ -19.0%
Higher than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 30.9%
- 2016: 30.4%
- 2021: 25.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.0% ▼ -2.8%
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.7%
- 2016: 35.0%
- 2021: 25.0%
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.
Defence service is much more common here than in most other areas, with 4.9% of people having served, which is a little above the New South Wales and Australian figures.
4.9%
Higher than 76% 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 Captains Flat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122032/captains-flat/topic/community