19.5% ▼ -22.8%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.3%
- 2016: 24.3%
- 2021: 19.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Holgate · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Holgate
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over 32% of people in Holgate put in 15 or more hours of unpaid housework each week, a figure far above the national average. This level of home-based work is part of a broader trend of high community and family contribution across the area.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 19.5% of residents giving their time. This is well above the 14.1% national figure and the New South Wales rate of 13.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is a significant part of life in Holgate. Roughly 31.9% of people care for children unpaid and 14.9% provide other types of unpaid care, both of which are well above state and national levels.
14.9% ▲ +11.8%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.4%
- 2016: 12.4%
- 2021: 14.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
31.9% ▼ -1.8%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.4%
- 2016: 35.1%
- 2021: 31.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
32.6% ▲ +12.2%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.1%
- 2016: 30.4%
- 2021: 32.6%
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 2.6% of the population have served in the Defence Force. This is about the same as the figures for both New South Wales and Australia.
2.6%
Lower than 51% 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 Holgate [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11928/holgate/topic/community