5.6% ▼ -38.9%
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.1%
- 2016: 9.1%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
North St Marys · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in North St Marys
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Few people in North St Marys are involved in unpaid community work, with only 5.6% of residents volunteering. This is well below the national figure of 14.1%. Most community participation here is lower than in other similar areas across the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 5.6% of people volunteer here, which is among the lowest for this type of area and well below the New South Wales figure of 13.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is less common here than in most areas, with only 21.3% of people caring for children and 17.1% doing 15 or more hours of housework. This is well below the national figures for both activities, though the 11.6% of people providing general unpaid care is about the same as the rest of Australia.
11.6% ▲ +4.4%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.3% ▼ -16.1%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.4%
- 2016: 24.8%
- 2021: 21.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
17.1% ▼ -20.3%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.5%
- 2016: 18.3%
- 2021: 17.1%
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 1.5% of the population, which is lower than most areas and a little below the Australian average of 2.8%.
1.5%
Lower than 63% 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 North St Marys [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13017/north-st-marys/topic/community