11.0% ▼ -23.5%
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 11.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Padstow Heights · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Padstow Heights
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A small number of residents in Padstow Heights contribute through volunteering, which is much lower than in most other similar areas. Only 11.0% of the community volunteer their time, a figure that sits well below the national average of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Just 11.0% of people here volunteer, which is much lower than most areas and a little below the New South Wales figure of 13.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is lower than most areas at 22.4%, while 11.2% of residents provide other types of unpaid care, which is about the same as the national figure. However, 22.9% of people do at least 15 hours of unpaid housework, slightly above the national figure of 20.7%.
11.2% ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 11.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.4% ▼ -18.8%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.5%
- 2016: 26.6%
- 2021: 22.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.9% ▲ +2.3%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.4%
- 2016: 21.1%
- 2021: 22.9%
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 2.0% of the population, which is lower than most areas and about the same as the New South Wales rate of 2.3%.
2.0%
Lower than 59% 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 Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13132/padstow-heights/topic/community