28.6% ▼ -25.1%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.2%
- 2016: 40.0%
- 2021: 28.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bangheet · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bangheet
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A far higher share of people in Bangheet give their time to others compared to the rest of the country. Nearly 29% of residents volunteer, which is double the national figure. This strong spirit of contribution is seen across both community work and unpaid care at home.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 28.6% of people helping out. This is far above the 13% seen in New South Wales and the 14.1% national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Home life involves a lot of unpaid work, with 34.3% of people caring for children and 31.4% doing over 15 hours of housework weekly, both figures being well above the national average. However, the 11.4% of people providing general unpaid care is about the same as the state and national figures.
11.4% ▼ -4.4%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 11.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
34.3% ▼ -2.3%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.1%
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 34.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
31.4% ▼ -7.9%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.1%
- 2016: 23.3%
- 2021: 31.4%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the New South Wales rate of 2.3%.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Bangheet [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10176/bangheet/topic/community