5.3% ▼ -78.2%
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.2%
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 5.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Charbon · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Charbon
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A gap of nearly 9 percentage points separates Charbon from the national figure for volunteering. Only 5.3% of people here volunteer, which is among the lowest rates for similar areas. This reflects a broader trend of low community participation across the board in the area.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Just 5.3% of residents volunteer, a figure that is well below both the New South Wales rate of 13% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much lower than most areas, with only 13.2% of people caring for children unpaid. This is far below the national figure of 26.3%, while the 9.2% who provide general unpaid care is also a little below the Australian average.
9.2% ▲ +10.5%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 17.3%
- 2021: 9.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
13.2% ▼ -49.0%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.8%
- 2016: 32.7%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.1% ▼ -21.1%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.7%
- 2016: 19.2%
- 2021: 21.1%
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.
No residents in this area have served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the New South Wales and Australian rates of around 2% to 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 Charbon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10882/charbon/topic/community