17.8% ▼ -22.3%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.9%
- 2016: 27.5%
- 2021: 17.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Dooralong · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Dooralong
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong spirit of helping others defines daily life in Dooralong, where 17.8% of people volunteer. This is well above the national figure of 14.1% and the state average of 13.0%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Local volunteering is high, with 17.8% of residents giving their time, a rate well above both New South Wales and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While unpaid care for others is much lower than most areas at 5.9%, housework is very common here. About 31.1% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly, which is far above the national figure of 20.7%.
5.9% ▼ -54.0%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.7% ▼ -35.8%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.4%
- 2016: 24.6%
- 2021: 22.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
31.1% ▼ -12.0%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.4%
- 2016: 25.2%
- 2021: 31.1%
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 2.1% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the rates for 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).
More for Dooralong
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Community Participation in Dooralong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11278/dooralong/topic/community