9.6% ▼ -20.0%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Padstow · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Padstow
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Less than 10% of people volunteer in Padstow, which is well below both the state and national figures. This gap highlights a lower level of community participation compared to other similar areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 9.6% of residents volunteer their time, a figure that is well below the New South Wales rate of 13% and the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care roles are less common here than in most areas, with 11.5% of people providing care and 23.3% caring for children unpaid. Around 21.5% of residents do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, which is about the same as the national figure.
11.5% ▼ -1.3%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.3% ▼ -11.2%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.3%
- 2016: 26.0%
- 2021: 23.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.5% ▲ +4.7%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.5%
- 2016: 19.2%
- 2021: 21.5%
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.
Defence service is lower than in most areas, with 1.4% of people having served in the Defence Force. This is a little below the Australian figure of 2.8%.
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 Padstow [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13131/padstow/topic/community