15.4% ▼ -5.7%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.3%
- 2016: 16.3%
- 2021: 15.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Highfields · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Highfields
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a third of residents in Highfields provide unpaid childcare, which is a much higher rate than in most other areas. This strong focus on family care is a key feature of the community, which also sees a higher-than-average number of people serving in the Defence Force.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 15.4% of people volunteer here. This is a little above the figures for both New South Wales and Australia, though it is lower than in most similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common in the area, with 36.3% of people caring for children—well above the national figure of 26.3%. This is consistent with higher rates of people providing general unpaid care (15.0%) and doing 15 or more hours of housework (24.8%).
15.0% ▲ +27.3%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 13.4%
- 2021: 15.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
36.3% ▲ +13.1%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.1%
- 2016: 32.0%
- 2021: 36.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.8% ▲ +6.0%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.4%
- 2016: 22.4%
- 2021: 24.8%
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.
Defence service is much more common here than in most other areas, with 4.3% of people having served. This is a little above the rates for both the state and the nation.
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 Highfields [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11909/highfields/topic/community