17.8% ▼ -21.3%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.5%
- 2016: 21.3%
- 2021: 17.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bendalong · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bendalong
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people in Bendalong give their time to others than in most of the country. Local life is marked by a strong helping hand, with 17.8% of residents volunteering, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 17.8% of people pitching in. This is well above the 13.0% seen across New South Wales and the 14.1% average for Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Many residents do a lot of work at home, as 33.6% spend 15 or more hours a week on unpaid housework, which is far above the national figure. However, the proportion of people caring for children unpaid is 17.8%, which is well below the Australian average of 26.3%.
9.3% ▼ -23.4%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.2%
- 2016: 22.7%
- 2021: 9.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.8% ▼ -26.8%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.3%
- 2016: 22.7%
- 2021: 17.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
33.6% ▼ -1.0%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.0%
- 2016: 38.7%
- 2021: 33.6%
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.
A larger share of the community has a military background. Those who served in the Defence Force make up 4.6% of the population, which is much higher than most areas and a little above the national figure of 2.8%.
4.6%
Higher than 77% 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 Bendalong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10288/bendalong/topic/community