12.3% ▼ -33.2%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.4%
- 2016: 20.4%
- 2021: 12.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Dolans Bay · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Dolans Bay
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
About 25.6% of people in Dolans Bay provide unpaid care for children, a figure that matches state and national levels. This is the most common form of community contribution in the area. Other forms of participation, such as volunteering, are less frequent here.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 12.3% of residents volunteer, which is much lower than most similar areas and slightly below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
A quarter of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly, which is well above the national figure of 20.7%. Meanwhile, 11.1% provide other types of unpaid care, which is lower than most areas.
11.1% ▼ -32.0%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.3%
- 2016: 12.2%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.6% ▼ -9.0%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.2%
- 2016: 30.0%
- 2021: 25.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.6% ▼ -7.1%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.6%
- 2016: 24.4%
- 2021: 25.6%
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.
Around 2.1% of the community have served in the Defence Force, a rate that is about the same as both New South Wales and Australia.
2.1%
Lower than 58% 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 Dolans Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11268/dolans-bay/topic/community