34.6% —
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 35.6%
- 2021: 34.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Afterlee · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Afterlee
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over a third of residents in Afterlee give their time to volunteering, reflecting a community where people are highly active in helping others. This spirit of service is mirrored by a very high rate of former Defence Force members compared to the rest of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 34.6% of people helping out, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 13.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 26.9% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly—well above the national figure of 20.7%—there are no residents reported as providing unpaid care for others or children.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 17.8%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 17.8%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.9% —
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 31.1%
- 2021: 26.9%
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 far more common in Afterlee than elsewhere, with 21.4% of people having served, compared to just 2.8% across Australia.
21.4%
Higher 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 Afterlee [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10020/afterlee/topic/community