13.1% ▼ -22.0%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.8%
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 13.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Abernethy · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Abernethy
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
About 27.7% of people in Abernethy provide unpaid childcare, which is higher than in most other similar areas. This figure is a little above both the state and national averages. Other forms of community contribution and service are less common here.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is less common in Abernethy than in most other areas, with 13.1% of residents helping out. This is about the same as the New South Wales figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care for children is more common here than in most areas, while those doing 15 or more hours of housework or providing general unpaid care are less common than in most places.
11.5% ▼ -17.7%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.0%
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.7% ▼ -26.0%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.4%
- 2016: 34.4%
- 2021: 27.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.3% ▼ -25.5%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.9%
- 2016: 20.1%
- 2021: 22.3%
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.
No one in Abernethy has served in the Defence Force, which is lower than most areas and a little below the national figure of 2.8%.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Abernethy [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10011/abernethy/topic/community