24.7% ▼ -19.6%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.7%
- 2016: 29.1%
- 2021: 24.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Dunedoo · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Dunedoo
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A far higher rate of volunteering than the state average defines the community spirit in Dunedoo. Nearly 25% of residents give their time to help others, which is over 10 percentage points above the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 24.7% of people pitching in. This is much higher than most areas and far above the New South Wales rate of 13.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 13.1% of people provide unpaid care, the proportion of those caring for children unpaid is 19.5%, which is well below the national figure of 26.3%. About 23.3% of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly.
13.1% ▲ +17.3%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 13.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.5% ▼ -12.4%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.2%
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 19.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.3% ▼ -16.0%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.7%
- 2016: 24.0%
- 2021: 23.3%
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 have served in the Defence Force make up 2.7% of the population. This is about the same as the New South Wales figure of 2.3% and the national rate of 2.8%.
2.7%
Higher than 51% 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 Dunedoo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11319/dunedoo/topic/community