7.6% ▲ +2.8%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.4%
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Marsden Park · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Marsden Park
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Family responsibilities dominate daily life in Marsden Park, where a huge 44.5% of people provide unpaid childcare. This is far above the national figure of 26.3%, though very few residents spend their spare time volunteering compared to other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 7.6% of residents volunteer, which is among the lowest for similar areas and well below the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 44.5% of people care for children unpaid—a rate far above the New South Wales figure of 25.3%—those providing other types of unpaid care are much lower than most areas at 7.8%. Around 23.6% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, slightly above the national figure.
7.8% ▼ -19.8%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.7%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
44.5% ▲ +101.9%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.0%
- 2016: 22.7%
- 2021: 44.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.6% ▲ +18.3%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.9%
- 2016: 19.1%
- 2021: 23.6%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 0.7% of the population, which is a little below the national figure of 2.8%.
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 Marsden Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12515/marsden-park/topic/community