11.5% ▲ +10.2%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 15.8%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Hillsborough · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Hillsborough
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people in Hillsborough are now providing unpaid care than in previous years. The community is especially defined by a high number of residents supporting children and other family members, though this contrasts with a lower-than-usual rate of volunteering.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 11.5% of people here volunteer, which is much lower than most areas and a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very common here, with 32.5% of people caring for children—well above the New South Wales figure of 25.3%. This is consistent with 16.4% of residents providing other unpaid care, a rate much higher than most areas.
16.4% ▲ +28.0%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 14.5%
- 2021: 16.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
32.5% ▲ +1.7%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.0%
- 2016: 32.3%
- 2021: 32.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.1% ▼ -12.7%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.6%
- 2016: 23.5%
- 2021: 24.1%
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.
Around 3.0% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the figures for both New South Wales and Australia.
3.0%
Higher 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 Hillsborough [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11916/hillsborough/topic/community