10.3% ▼ -25.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.8%
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Caringbah · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Caringbah
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much lower levels of volunteering and unpaid care mark Caringbah compared to most similar areas. While 27.6% of people provide unpaid childcare, only 10.3% of the population volunteers, which is well below the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 10.3% of people in Caringbah volunteer, a figure that is much lower than most other areas and well below the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Caregiving for children is more common here than in most areas at 27.6%, yet the figures for unpaid care (10.0%) and those doing over 15 hours of housework (19.1%) are both much lower than in similar places.
10.0% ▼ -9.7%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.0%
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.6% ▼ -4.1%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.8%
- 2016: 30.5%
- 2021: 27.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.1% ▲ +1.5%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.8%
- 2016: 17.6%
- 2021: 19.1%
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.
About 3.2% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is around the middle for similar areas and about the same as the national figure of 2.8%.
3.2%
Higher than 59% 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 Caringbah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10814/caringbah/topic/community