18.1% ▼ -2.1%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.5%
- 2016: 22.4%
- 2021: 18.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Morpeth · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Morpeth
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Morpeth volunteer, a figure well above the national average. This highlights a strong trend of community involvement across the area. Local participation is also high in other areas, such as defence service and unpaid care.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 18.1% of residents volunteer their time. This is well above the 14.1% seen across Australia and the 13.0% figure for New South Wales.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 13.6% of people providing care and 25.3% doing over 15 hours of housework, both of which are well above national figures. Meanwhile, the 24.2% of people caring for children unpaid is a little below the state and national averages.
13.6% ▼ -1.8%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.9%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.2% ▼ -26.0%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.7%
- 2016: 28.4%
- 2021: 24.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.3% ▼ -9.7%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.0%
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 25.3%
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.
Defence service is much more common in Morpeth than in most other areas. Around 5.0% of residents have served, which is a little above the 2.3% in New South Wales and 2.8% nationally.
5.0%
Higher than 80% 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 Morpeth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12738/morpeth/topic/community