12.3% ▼ -17.0%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.8%
- 2016: 15.7%
- 2021: 12.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Chippendale · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Chippendale
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far fewer people in Chippendale engage in unpaid care and volunteering compared to most similar areas. This is most evident in the low number of people caring for children, with only 6% doing so compared to a national figure of 26.3%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 12.3% of people here volunteer, which is much lower than most areas. This figure is a little below the Australian average of 14.1% and about the same as the New South Wales rate.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very uncommon here, with only 4.2% of people providing care and 8.3% doing 15 or more hours of housework. Both figures are far below the national figures, as are the 6% of people caring for children unpaid.
4.2% ▲ +4.6%
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
6.0% ▼ -15.1%
Lower than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
8.3% ▲ +25.3%
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 8.3%
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.
Only 0.7% of residents have served in the Defence Force. This is lower than most areas and a little below the New South Wales rate of 2.3%.
0.7%
Lower than 70% 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 Chippendale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10906/chippendale/topic/community