11.8% ▼ -31.0%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.2%
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Pitt Town · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Pitt Town
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A much higher proportion of people provide unpaid childcare in Pitt Town compared to the rest of the state. While this area sees strong levels of home and family care, it has lower rates of formal volunteering than most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 11.8% of people here volunteer, which is much lower than most areas and a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Family duties are common here, with 34.0% of people caring for children unpaid, well above the New South Wales figure of 25.3%. This is consistent with 26.7% of residents doing 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, which is also well above the state average. Meanwhile, 11.5% provide other unpaid care, about the same as the state and national figures.
11.5% ▲ +11.2%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
34.0% ▼ -4.8%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.7%
- 2016: 38.7%
- 2021: 34.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.7% ▲ +1.8%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.3%
- 2016: 24.3%
- 2021: 26.7%
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.
About 2.3% of the population served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
2.3%
Lower than 56% 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 Pitt Town [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13238/pitt-town/topic/community