14.8% ▼ -20.1%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.5%
- 2016: 21.0%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
North Sydney · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in North Sydney
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Volunteering and care rates have stayed relatively steady in North Sydney, though the area is now marked by a very low number of people performing unpaid care. Only 17.1% of residents provide unpaid childcare, which is well below the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.8% of people in North Sydney volunteer, a figure that is a little above the New South Wales rate of 13.0% and about the same as the national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much lower here than in most areas. Only 7.1% provide unpaid care and 15.0% do 15 or more hours of housework, both figures being well below the state and national averages.
7.1% ▼ -7.4%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.7%
- 2016: 7.6%
- 2021: 7.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.1% ▼ -0.7%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.3%
- 2016: 18.4%
- 2021: 17.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
15.0% ▲ +35.6%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 15.0%
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.
The 2.3% of residents who served in the Defence Force is about the same as the figures for both New South Wales and Australia.
2.3%
Lower than 56% 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 Sydney [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13020/north-sydney/topic/community