4.3% —
Lower than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Angus · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Angus
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A huge gap in volunteering marks the community in Angus, where only 4.3% of people give their time to others. This is well below the national figure of 14.1%. Residents are also much less likely to provide unpaid childcare compared to the rest of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 4.3% of people in Angus volunteer, a figure that is among the lowest for similar areas and well below the New South Wales rate of 13.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 11.7% of people provide unpaid care, which is about the same as the national figure, only 18.4% care for children unpaid. This is well below the Australian average of 26.3%, although 24.2% of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework.
11.7% —
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
18.4% —
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.2% —
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
About 2.8% of the population have served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the figures for both New South Wales and Australia.
2.8%
Higher than 53% 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 Angus [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10060/angus/topic/community