22.3% ▼ -7.0%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.0%
- 2016: 25.4%
- 2021: 22.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Dover Heights · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Dover Heights
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Higher than most areas, 22.3% of people in Dover Heights volunteer their time. This reflects a community that is significantly more active in unpaid work and childcare than the state or national averages.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 22.3% of residents volunteer, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is very common here, with 31.0% of people providing it, which is well above the national figure of 26.3%. Meanwhile, 13.4% of residents provide some form of unpaid care, and about 20.6% do 15 or more hours of housework a week, which is about the same as the rest of Australia.
13.4% ▼ -1.3%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.6%
- 2016: 12.8%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
31.0% ▼ -1.4%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.4%
- 2016: 34.2%
- 2021: 31.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.6% ▲ +16.9%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.6%
- 2016: 18.6%
- 2021: 20.6%
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.
Only 0.6% of people in Dover Heights have served in the Defence Force, a figure that is a little below both the state and national averages.
0.6%
Lower than 71% 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 Dover Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11286/dover-heights/topic/community