9.8% ▼ -11.4%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Aberdare · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Aberdare
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A striking gap in community involvement marks Aberdare, where volunteering is much lower than in other areas. While only 9.8% of people volunteer, the area sees a very high rate of unpaid care for children.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 9.8% of people here volunteer, a figure that is well below the 13% seen across New South Wales and the 14.1% national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common, with 30.8% of people caring for children—well above the national figure of 26.3%. This helps explain why 14% of residents provide some form of unpaid care, which is a little above the state and national averages.
14.0% ▼ -0.6%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.8% ▼ -10.7%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.5%
- 2016: 32.6%
- 2021: 30.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.8% ▼ -13.0%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 23.2%
- 2021: 21.8%
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.
About 3.1% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the 2.3% in New South Wales and 2.8% across Australia.
3.1%
Higher 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 Aberdare [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10006/aberdare/topic/community