25.0% —
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 39.5%
- 2021: 25.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Carabost · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Carabost
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
One in four people in Carabost volunteer, a rate far above the national figure. This high level of community involvement defines daily life in the area, where residents are much more likely to give their time to others than people in most other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 25% of people here volunteer, which is far above the New South Wales rate of 13% and the Australian figure of 14.1%. This level of participation is much higher than in most other similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children involves 25% of the population, which is about the same as the state average. However, people doing 15 or more hours of housework (19.6%) and those providing general unpaid care (10.7%) are both a little below the national figures.
10.7% —
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.0% —
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 25.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.6% —
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 34.9%
- 2021: 19.6%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is lower than most areas and a little below the national average of 2.8%.
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 Carabost [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10804/carabost/topic/community