10.4% ▼ -45.6%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.1%
- 2016: 16.5%
- 2021: 10.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Pleasure Point · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Pleasure Point
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A striking 32% of people in Pleasure Point provide unpaid childcare, which is well above the national figure. This high level of family care is a defining feature of the area, even though other forms of community involvement are less common.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 10.4% of residents volunteer, a figure that is much lower than most areas and well below the 14.1% national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Beyond childcare, 28.6% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, which is well above the New South Wales figure. A little above the national average, 13.3% of the population also provide other forms of unpaid care.
13.3% ▼ -5.3%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
32.0% ▼ -12.7%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.7%
- 2016: 37.2%
- 2021: 32.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
28.6% ▲ +26.4%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.6%
- 2016: 23.2%
- 2021: 28.6%
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 less common here than in most areas, with 1.9% of people having served, which is about the same as the state and national figures.
1.9%
Lower than 60% 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 Pleasure Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13241/pleasure-point/topic/community