11.8% ▼ -34.1%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.9%
- 2016: 16.5%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Appin · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Appin
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A huge 37.8% of people in Appin provide unpaid childcare, far exceeding the national figure. This high level of family care dominates the local picture of community participation, while other forms of volunteering and service are less common.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 11.8% of people here volunteer, which is much lower than most similar areas and a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid childcare is very common here, with 37.8% of people doing so, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 25.3%. This sits alongside a higher rate of people doing 15 or more hours of housework than the national average.
12.9% ▼ -4.1%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.4%
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 12.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
37.8% ▲ +0.8%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.5%
- 2016: 38.8%
- 2021: 37.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.4% ▼ -3.0%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.2%
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 24.4%
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 Force service is less common here than in most other areas, with 1.9% of people having served, which is about the same as the state and national figures.
1.9%
Lower than 60% 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 Appin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10064/appin/topic/community