15.5% ▼ -16.8%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.6%
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 15.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Firefly · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Firefly
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A higher than usual proportion of residents in Firefly provide unpaid care and support compared to the national average. While 14.6% of people provide unpaid care, the area is also more likely to have former Defence Force members than most similar places.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 15.5% of people volunteer here, which is a little above the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the Australian figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common, with 14.6% of residents providing support, well above the state figure. This is linked to a much higher rate of people doing 15 or more hours of housework (30.5%), though the rate of people caring for children is well below the national figure at 17.8%.
14.6% ▲ +12.2%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 12.8%
- 2021: 14.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.8% ▼ -9.7%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.8%
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 17.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.5% ▼ -16.7%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.6%
- 2016: 30.2%
- 2021: 30.5%
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 4.3% of the population, which is much higher than in most similar areas and a little above the New South Wales figure of 2.3%.
4.3%
Higher than 74% 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 Firefly [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11524/firefly/topic/community