7.7% ▼ -20.5%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.7%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 7.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Arncliffe · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Arncliffe
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Very few residents in Arncliffe engage in unpaid community work compared to other similar areas. Only 7.7% of people volunteer, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%. This pattern of low community participation extends to unpaid care and household work.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is among the lowest at this level, with just 7.7% of people helping out, which is well below the 13.0% seen across New South Wales.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much lower than most areas, with only 9.3% of people providing care. This is reflected in the figures for unpaid housework and childcare, which are both well below the national averages.
9.3% ▼ -16.6%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 9.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.7% ▼ -12.7%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.8%
- 2016: 21.5%
- 2021: 20.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
16.0% ▼ -0.2%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.0%
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 16.0%
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 served in the Defence Force make up 0.9% of the population, a figure that is a little below both the state and national levels.
0.9%
Lower than 68% 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 Arncliffe [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10087/arncliffe/topic/community