19.6% ▼ -22.3%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.2%
- 2016: 28.5%
- 2021: 19.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Pennant Hills · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Pennant Hills
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 26% of people in Pennant Hills provide unpaid childcare, making it one of the most common ways residents contribute to their community. The area also shows a strong spirit of giving, with a much higher rate of volunteering than the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 19.6% of residents giving their time. This is well above the 14.1% national figure and the 13.0% seen across New South Wales.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
About 24.8% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly, which is well above the national figure of 20.7%. Meanwhile, 12.1% provide general unpaid care, a rate about the same as the state and national averages.
12.1% ▲ +2.2%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 12.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.3% ▼ -8.9%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.8%
- 2016: 29.8%
- 2021: 26.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.8% ▲ +2.1%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.3%
- 2016: 23.2%
- 2021: 24.8%
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 other areas and slightly below the national figure of 2.8%.
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 Pennant Hills [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13194/pennant-hills/topic/community