0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.2%
- 2016: 19.2%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Comberton · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Comberton
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A stark contrast in community roles has emerged in Comberton, where unpaid domestic work is very common but formal volunteering is almost non-existent. While 37.5% of people provide unpaid childcare, no one in the area is recorded as a volunteer. This suggests a community heavily focused on home and family duties rather than external organisations.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates in Comberton are among the lowest for similar areas, sitting at 0.0%. This is far below the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very common here, with 16.7% of people providing care and 37.5% looking after children unpaid, both of which are far above national and state figures. Additionally, 25.0% of residents do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, which is well above the 20.7% seen across Australia.
16.7% ▲ +18.5%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 46.2%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
37.5% ▲ +35.4%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.7%
- 2016: 19.2%
- 2021: 37.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.0% ▼ -36.5%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.4%
- 2016: 34.6%
- 2021: 25.0%
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 Comberton has served in the Defence Force. This is a little below the New South Wales rate of 2.3% and the Australian figure 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).
More for Comberton
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Community Participation in Comberton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10991/comberton/topic/community