18.2% ▼ -33.1%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.2%
- 2016: 27.2%
- 2021: 18.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
High Range · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in High Range
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 29% of residents in High Range spend 15 or more hours a week on unpaid housework, which is well above the national figure. This high level of domestic work is part of a broader pattern of community and family contribution in the area.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 18.2% of people helping out. This is well above both the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Caring for children unpaid is more common than in most areas at 27.7%. However, the 10.3% of people providing other unpaid care is a little below the national figure of 11.9%.
10.3% ▲ +3.1%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 10.4%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.7% ▼ -22.3%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.6%
- 2016: 31.6%
- 2021: 27.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
28.5% ▼ -7.4%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.7%
- 2016: 27.8%
- 2021: 28.5%
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.
About 2.3% of people in High Range have served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
2.3%
Lower than 56% 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 High Range [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11907/high-range/topic/community