16.5% ▼ -19.5%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.5%
- 2016: 21.1%
- 2021: 16.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Old Bar · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Old Bar
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people in Old Bar are involved in unpaid care and volunteering than in other parts of the country. This community shows a strong commitment to helping others, with over 15% of residents providing unpaid care and a high number of local volunteers.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 16.5% of people pitching in, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 13.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much more common here than in most areas, with 15.4% of people providing support. This includes 25.2% of residents who do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, a figure well above the national average.
15.4% ▲ +7.5%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 15.5%
- 2021: 15.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.9% ▼ -3.3%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.8%
- 2016: 25.5%
- 2021: 24.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.2% ▼ -11.7%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.6%
- 2016: 29.2%
- 2021: 25.2%
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.
A higher number of residents have served in the Defence Force compared to most areas, with 4.2% of the population having served, which is a little above the Australian figure of 2.8%.
4.2%
Higher than 73% 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 Old Bar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13084/old-bar/topic/community