15.6% ▼ -24.7%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.7%
- 2016: 23.1%
- 2021: 15.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Dural · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Dural
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people in Dural perform unpaid housework than in most other areas. While 15.6% of the community volunteer, the area's most notable trait is the high proportion of residents spending significant time on home duties.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 15.6% of people here volunteer, which is a little above the national figure of 14.1% and the New South Wales rate of 13.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Housework is common here, with 25.8% of people doing 15 or more hours of unpaid work, well above the 20.7% national figure. Meanwhile, 26.1% provide unpaid childcare and 11.5% provide other unpaid care, both of which are about the same as state and national levels.
11.5% ▲ +6.4%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.8%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.1% ▼ -10.4%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.1%
- 2016: 29.0%
- 2021: 26.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.8% ▲ +7.2%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.1%
- 2016: 23.6%
- 2021: 25.8%
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.
A small number of residents have served in the Defence Force, at 2.0%, which is about the same as the 2.3% seen across New South Wales.
2.0%
Lower than 59% 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 Dural [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11331/dural/topic/community