8.2% ▼ -20.4%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.3%
- 2016: 10.6%
- 2021: 8.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Holroyd · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Holroyd
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Local engagement in Holroyd has seen a shift in how people spend their spare time, with a strong focus on family. While unpaid childcare is common, formal volunteering is much lower than in other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 8.2% of people in Holroyd volunteer, which is among the lowest rates for similar areas and well below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care for children is common here, with 29.5% of people doing so, a figure well above the New South Wales average of 25.3%. However, the proportion of people doing significant housework or providing other unpaid care is lower than most areas.
11.4% ▲ +49.0%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.7%
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 11.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
29.5% ▲ +29.4%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.8%
- 2016: 28.4%
- 2021: 29.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.2% ▲ +75.8%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.5%
- 2016: 16.4%
- 2021: 20.2%
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.
Very few residents have served in the Defence Force, at 0.4%, which is a little below the Australian average of 2.8%.
0.4%
Lower 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 Holroyd [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11932/holroyd/topic/community