14.3% ▼ -27.2%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.7%
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Pokolbin · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Pokolbin
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement in Pokolbin has stayed relatively steady over the last decade, with a strong focus on home-based work. While volunteering is common, the most striking feature is the high number of people managing heavy housework loads compared to other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.3% of people here volunteer, which is about the same as the national figure of 14.1% and slightly higher than the New South Wales rate.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Nearly 30% of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework a week, which is well above the national figure of 20.7%. In contrast, those providing unpaid care or looking after children are lower than most areas and well below the state average.
10.1% ▲ +15.5%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 10.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.6% ▼ -17.2%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.8%
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 20.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
29.7% ▲ +38.8%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.4%
- 2016: 22.7%
- 2021: 29.7%
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.
Defence service is more common here than in most similar areas, with 3.3% of people having served, which is a little above the New South Wales rate of 2.3%.
3.3%
Higher than 61% 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 Pokolbin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13248/pokolbin/topic/community