28.6% —
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Narrabarba · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Narrabarba
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A far higher share of people volunteer in Narrabarba compared to the rest of the state. Nearly 29% of residents give their time to help others, which is more than double the New South Wales rate. This strong local involvement is matched by a high number of people providing unpaid care.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 28.6% of people helping out. This is far above the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is among the highest for this type of area at 42.9%, far above the national figure of 26.3%. While 14.3% of people provide some form of unpaid care, which is a little above the national average, only 14.3% do 15 or more hours of housework—a figure well below the New South Wales rate of 21.2%.
14.3% —
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
42.9% —
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
14.3% —
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did 15 hours or more of unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census.
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 Narrabarba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12910/narrabarba/topic/community