0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Longarm · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Longarm
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far fewer people volunteer in Longarm compared to the rest of the country. While about 26% of residents provide unpaid childcare, other forms of community and home support are much less common than in the state or national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
No one in Longarm is recorded as volunteering, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 13% and the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is common at 26.1%, which is about the same as the national figure. However, other care roles are rare; 0% of people provide unpaid care and only 17.4% do 15 or more hours of housework, both of which are well below the state and national averages.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.1% —
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
17.4% —
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did 15 hours or more of unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census.
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 Longarm [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12392/longarm/topic/community