6.3% ▼ -18.5%
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.7%
- 2016: 9.2%
- 2021: 6.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Middleton Grange · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Middleton Grange
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A high 37.2% of people in Middleton Grange provide unpaid child care, which is far above the national figure. This is a strong contrast to the area's low volunteer rates, where only 6.3% of residents give their time to community organisations.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 6.3% of residents volunteer their time, a figure that is well below the New South Wales average and among the lowest for similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 37.2% of people provide unpaid child care—far above the national figure of 26.3%—only 9.7% provide other forms of unpaid care, which is a little below the state average.
9.7% ▼ -34.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.7%
- 2016: 11.2%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
37.2% ▲ +48.6%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.1%
- 2016: 40.0%
- 2021: 37.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.7% ▲ +1.6%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.4%
- 2016: 18.5%
- 2021: 20.7%
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.
About 2.5% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
2.5%
Lower than 53% 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 Middleton Grange [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12618/middleton-grange/topic/community