18.1% —
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 30.9%
- 2021: 18.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mount Frome · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mount Frome
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Local engagement has remained strong in Mount Frome, where community support is very high. A striking 45.7% of people provide unpaid childcare, a figure far above the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 18.1% of residents giving their time. This is well above 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 care is a major part of life in Mount Frome, as 25.5% of people provide unpaid care—far above the 11.9% national figure. This is consistent with the very high rate of people caring for children unpaid, at 45.7%.
25.5% —
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.5%
- 2021: 25.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
45.7% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 25.5%
- 2021: 45.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.4% —
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 24.5%
- 2021: 23.4%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the New South Wales rate of 2.3%.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Mount Frome [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12771/mount-frome/topic/community