25.4% ▼ -37.8%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.9%
- 2016: 37.5%
- 2021: 25.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Delegate · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Delegate
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong spirit of helping others defines Delegate, where community involvement is far more common than in most of the country. More than a quarter of residents volunteer their time, a figure that is far above the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 25.4% of people pitching in. This is much higher than most areas and far above the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is more frequent than usual, with 15.3% of people providing help, well above the national figure. While 27.4% do plenty of housework, the 21.8% who care for children is well below the Australian average of 26.3%.
15.3% ▼ -9.2%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.9%
- 2016: 14.2%
- 2021: 15.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.8% ▼ -5.9%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.1%
- 2016: 19.1%
- 2021: 21.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.4% ▼ -3.9%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.5%
- 2016: 29.4%
- 2021: 27.4%
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.
A higher share of the population has served in the Defence Force compared to most areas. At 3.6%, this is a little above the New South Wales figure of 2.3%.
3.6%
Higher than 65% 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 Delegate [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11235/delegate/topic/community