17.6% ▼ -22.1%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.6%
- 2016: 27.5%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Abercrombie · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Abercrombie
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people in Abercrombie provide unpaid care than in the rest of the state, with 37.3% caring for children. This community shows a strong commitment to others, reflected in both family support and local volunteering.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 17.6% of residents giving their time. This is well above the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid child care is very high at 37.3%, which is far above the national figure of 26.3%. While 24.3% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, those providing other types of unpaid care sit at 11.8%, about the same as the state and national levels.
11.8% ▲ +10.7%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.7%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
37.3% ▼ -7.6%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.3%
- 2016: 36.7%
- 2021: 37.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.3% ▼ -8.5%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.6%
- 2016: 23.0%
- 2021: 24.3%
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 around the middle for similar areas, with 2.3% of people having served. This is about the same as the New South Wales figure.
2.3%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality 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 Abercrombie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10004/abercrombie/topic/community