16.2% ▼ -43.5%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.7%
- 2016: 30.2%
- 2021: 16.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Dungay · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Dungay
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a quarter of people in Dungay provide unpaid care for children, reflecting a community with a strong focus on family and home life. Residents here are more likely to volunteer and handle unpaid domestic duties than people across the state and nation.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.2% of residents volunteer, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and a little above the national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 14.7% of people providing unpaid care and 27.2% doing 15 or more hours of housework, both figures being well above the state and national averages. Around 25.7% of people care for children unpaid, which is about the same as the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
14.7% ▼ -1.0%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.8%
- 2016: 18.6%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.7% ▲ +7.8%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.8%
- 2016: 33.1%
- 2021: 25.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.2% ▼ -13.8%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.6%
- 2016: 29.1%
- 2021: 27.2%
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 2.2% of the population, a figure that is about the same as both the state and national levels.
2.2%
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).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Community Participation in Dungay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11321/dungay/topic/community