17.6% ▼ -24.8%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.4%
- 2016: 25.9%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Denistone · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Denistone
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a quarter of people in Denistone provide unpaid care for children, marking this as the most common form of community contribution in the area. This high level of family support is mirrored by a strong culture of volunteering and household care that exceeds state and national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 17.6% of residents giving their time. This is well above the 13.0% seen across New South Wales and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Household and family support is very high in Denistone. About 27.4% of people provide unpaid childcare, and 26.6% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, both of which are well above the national figures.
14.6% ▲ +0.2%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 14.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.4% ▼ -12.0%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.1%
- 2016: 30.6%
- 2021: 27.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.6% ▲ +1.1%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.3%
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 26.6%
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.
Defence service is less common here than in most areas, with 2.0% of residents having served. This is about the same as the 2.3% for New South Wales and 2.8% for Australia.
2.0%
Lower 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 Denistone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11240/denistone/topic/community