21.2% ▼ -27.3%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.2%
- 2016: 29.0%
- 2021: 21.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Alstonvale · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Alstonvale
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Alstonvale volunteer their time, which is a much higher rate than the national figure. This community shows a strong tendency towards unpaid work, both through volunteering and providing care for others.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 21.2% of residents are volunteers, a figure that is well above the 13% seen in New South Wales and the 14.1% across Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common here, with 16.7% of people providing unpaid care and 29% doing over 15 hours of housework weekly, both of which are well above national figures. Around 27.7% of residents also provide unpaid childcare, which is a little above the Australian average.
16.7% ▲ +20.8%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.8%
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.7% ▼ -8.2%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.2%
- 2016: 29.5%
- 2021: 27.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
29.0% ▼ -2.9%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.9%
- 2016: 30.4%
- 2021: 29.0%
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.
People who have served in the Defence Force make up 2.9% of the population, which is about the same as the 2.8% seen across Australia.
2.9%
Higher than 54% 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 Alstonvale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10045/alstonvale/topic/community