16.5% ▼ -13.8%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.1%
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 16.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Double Bay · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Double Bay
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A higher than average share of people in Double Bay give their time to volunteering, though fewer residents are been found performing unpaid care. Around 16.5% of the community volunteer, which is well above the New South Wales figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 16.5% of residents helping out. This is a little above the national figure of 14.1% and well above the state average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is less common in this area than most. Only 20.7% of people care for children unpaid and 16.6% do 15 or more hours of housework, both of which are well below the national figures.
10.9% ▲ +19.2%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 10.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.7% ▲ +4.5%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.8%
- 2016: 20.6%
- 2021: 20.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
16.6% ▲ +28.8%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 16.6%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 1.4% of the population. This is lower than most areas and a little below the Australian average of 2.8%.
1.4%
Lower than 64% 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 Double Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11283/double-bay/topic/community