4.6% ▼ -49.4%
Lower than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Airds · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Airds
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A gap of nearly 10 percentage points separates Airds from the national average in volunteering. Only 4.6% of people here volunteer, which is among the lowest rates for similar areas. This community shows a low level of formal volunteerism despite higher than usual rates of unpaid care.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Just 4.6% of residents volunteer, a figure that is well below both the New South Wales rate of 13.0% and the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
More people provide unpaid care here than in most areas, with 13.7% doing so. Around 25.1% of residents provide unpaid childcare, while only 18.1% do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, which is much lower than most areas.
13.7% ▼ -17.0%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.5%
- 2016: 16.4%
- 2021: 13.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.1% ▼ -10.1%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.0%
- 2016: 24.6%
- 2021: 25.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.1% ▼ -20.4%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.7%
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 18.1%
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 less common in Airds than in other areas, with 1.3% of people having served, which is a little below the national figure of 2.8%.
1.3%
Lower 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 Airds [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10022/airds/topic/community