11.8% ▼ -33.5%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.7%
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Macquarie Park · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Macquarie Park
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much lower rates of unpaid care and volunteering set Macquarie Park apart from the rest of the state. Only 5.7% of people provide unpaid care, which is well below the national figure. This trend extends to other forms of community contribution and home-based work.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is less common here than in most other areas, with only 11.8% of people pitching in. This is a little below both the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work in the home is very low here, with only 14.0% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework. Similarly, those caring for children unpaid (17.3%) and those providing other unpaid care (5.7%) are both well below the national and state figures.
5.7% ▼ -18.8%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.3% ▲ +14.7%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.1%
- 2016: 17.5%
- 2021: 17.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
14.0% ▲ +34.7%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 14.0%
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.
Defence service is less common in Macquarie Park than in most areas. Only 0.7% of residents have served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the 2.8% seen across Australia.
0.7%
Lower than 70% 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 Macquarie Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12446/macquarie-park/topic/community