17.4% ▼ -9.3%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.2%
- 2016: 21.5%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Adamstown Heights · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Adamstown Heights
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a third of people in Adamstown Heights provide unpaid child care, a figure far above the state average. This highlights a strong trend of local residents contributing significant time to family and community support.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 17.4% of residents giving their time. This is well above both the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Family care is a major focus, as 35.4% of people look after children unpaid—well above the national figure of 26.3%. This sits alongside a higher than usual 13.7% who provide other unpaid care and 24.6% who do 15 or more hours of housework weekly.
13.7% ▼ -0.1%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 13.4%
- 2021: 13.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
35.4% ▲ +3.5%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.2%
- 2016: 35.7%
- 2021: 35.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.6% ▼ -12.0%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.9%
- 2016: 26.1%
- 2021: 24.6%
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 higher than average 3.6% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is a little above the New South Wales rate of 2.3%.
3.6%
Higher than 65% 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 Adamstown Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10017/adamstown-heights/topic/community