21.5% ▼ -28.6%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.1%
- 2016: 29.3%
- 2021: 21.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Newrybar · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Newrybar
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Newrybar volunteer, making it a community with a much higher rate of unpaid helping than the rest of the country. This spirit of participation extends into the home, where residents spend more time on unpaid housework than the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 21.5% of people helping out. This is well above the 13.0% seen across New South Wales and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
A higher share of residents do at least 15 hours of unpaid housework each week (25.9%) compared to the Australian figure of 20.7%. Meanwhile, 12.6% provide unpaid care and 24.8% care for children unpaid, both of which are around the middle for similar areas.
12.6% ▼ -7.3%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.6%
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 12.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.8% ▼ -15.7%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.4%
- 2016: 24.8%
- 2021: 24.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.9% ▼ -14.3%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.3%
- 2016: 26.9%
- 2021: 25.9%
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 1.4% of the population, which is lower than most areas and a little below the 2.8% national average.
1.4%
Lower than 64% 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 Newrybar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12966/newrybar/topic/community