17.4% —
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Number One · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Number One
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people in Number One spend their time on unpaid housework than in other parts of the country. While 43.5% of residents do at least 15 hours of housework a week, the area has a much lower rate of unpaid care for children and other people compared to the state and nation.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 17.4% of people helping out, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Housework is a major activity for 43.5% of residents, far above the 20.7% national average. In contrast, unpaid care for others is almost non-existent at 0.0%, and only 17.4% care for children, both of which are well below the figures for New South Wales.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.4% —
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
43.5% —
Higher than 99% 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 Number One [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13047/number-one/topic/community