12.5% ▼ -8.9%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 15.0%
- 2021: 12.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Eveleigh · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Eveleigh
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far fewer people provide unpaid care in Eveleigh than in most other areas. This is a community where very few residents perform unpaid housework or look after children, with only 9.1% providing any form of unpaid care.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is less common here than in most similar areas, with 12.5% of residents helping out. This is a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is uncommon in the area; only 15.2% of people care for children, which is far below the national figure of 26.3%. Similarly, those doing 15 or more hours of housework each week are among the lowest in the country at 11.7%.
9.1% ▲ +30.9%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 9.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
15.2% ▼ -17.6%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.4%
- 2016: 19.0%
- 2021: 15.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
11.7% ▲ +1.2%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.5%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 11.7%
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.
Defence service is rare in Eveleigh, where 0.0% of residents have served in the Defence Force. This is a little below the New South Wales figure of 2.3%.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Eveleigh [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11474/eveleigh/topic/community