19.6% ▼ -20.8%
Higher than 81% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 24.8%
- 2016: 27.5%
- 2021: 19.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Newtown · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Community Participation in Newtown
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
About 30.4% of people in Newtown provide unpaid childcare, which is well above the national figure. This community is highly active in unpaid work, with a strong tendency toward volunteering and caring for others compared to most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is much more common here than in most areas, with 19.6% of residents pitching in, though this is 5.2 percentage points lower than it was in 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common, with 24.5% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly. Meanwhile, the proportion of people providing unpaid care rose to 15.4% since 2011, a figure that is well above the national average.
15.4% ▲ +19.1%
Higher than 96% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 13.4%
- 2021: 15.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.4% ▼ -1.5%
Higher than 77% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 30.8%
- 2016: 30.9%
- 2021: 30.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.5% ▲ +1.6%
Higher than 79% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 24.1%
- 2016: 22.8%
- 2021: 24.5%
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 2.3%, which is lower than most areas and about the same as the state and national figures.
2.3%
Lower than 66% of statistical area 2 (sa2) 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 Newtown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/203021046/newtown/topic/community