15.1% ▼ -27.1%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.7%
- 2016: 18.6%
- 2021: 15.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Dolphin Point · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Dolphin Point
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A quarter of people in Dolphin Point provide unpaid care for children, marking the most common form of community contribution here. While this matches state and national figures, the area stands out for having a much higher rate of general unpaid care than most similar places.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 15.1% of residents volunteer, which is a little above the New South Wales figure and about the same as the national average, though this is lower than most similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 16.8% of people providing care, a figure well above the state and national averages. This is reflected in the housework totals, where 25.0% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid chores weekly, which is well above the national figure.
16.8% ▼ -4.7%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.6%
- 2016: 19.2%
- 2021: 16.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.3% ▼ -7.9%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.5%
- 2016: 16.9%
- 2021: 25.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.0% ▼ -23.3%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.6%
- 2016: 23.2%
- 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.
About 2.4% of the population has served in the Defence Force, a rate that is about the same as both the state and national figures.
2.4%
Lower than 55% 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 Dolphin Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11271/dolphin-point/topic/community