10.4% ▼ -19.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 15.2%
- 2021: 10.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Long Jetty · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Long Jetty
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Only 10.4% of people in Long Jetty volunteer, a figure that is well below the national average. This highlights a local trend of lower community participation across several unpaid roles compared to other similar areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering rates in Long Jetty are much lower than in most other areas, sitting a little below the New South Wales figure and well below the Australian average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care roles are less common here than in most areas, with only 23.3% of people caring for children unpaid, which is well below the national figure. Around 20.3% do 15 or more hours of housework, and 11.9% provide other unpaid care, both of which are about the same as the state and national levels.
11.9% ▼ -2.7%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.2%
- 2016: 12.2%
- 2021: 11.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.3% ▼ -14.3%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.2%
- 2016: 26.5%
- 2021: 23.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.3% ▼ -10.8%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.7%
- 2016: 20.4%
- 2021: 20.3%
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.
A small portion of the population has served in the Defence Force, with 2.6% of residents having done so. This is about the same as the figures for both New South Wales and Australia.
2.6%
Higher than 50% 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 Long Jetty [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12387/long-jetty/topic/community