11.2% ▼ -14.9%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 15.5%
- 2021: 11.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Ashfield · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Ashfield
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Only 8.8% of residents in Ashfield provide unpaid care, a figure that is well below the national average. This area shows generally lower levels of community and family-based support work compared to most other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is less common here than in most areas, with 11.2% of people helping out, which is a little below the figures for both New South Wales and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care roles are much less common in Ashfield than in most areas. This includes the 17.8% who care for children and the 16.3% doing 15 or more hours of housework, both of which are well below national and state levels.
8.8% ▲ +0.8%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 9.2%
- 2021: 8.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.8% ▼ -11.4%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.0%
- 2016: 20.1%
- 2021: 17.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
16.3% ▲ +11.9%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.6%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 16.3%
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 1.0% of the population, which is lower than most areas and a little below the state and national figures.
1.0%
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 Ashfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10099/ashfield/topic/community