18.0% ▼ -18.7%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.2%
- 2016: 22.7%
- 2021: 18.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Port Hacking · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Port Hacking
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people spend their spare time helping others in Port Hacking than is typical for the state. This is a community where a high proportion of residents take on unpaid roles, whether through volunteering or managing a home.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 18% of people here volunteer, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 13% and the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common here, with 33.1% of people caring for children and 29.2% doing over 15 hours of housework weekly, both figures being much higher than most areas. This is consistent with a higher than usual rate of people providing general unpaid care, at 14.3%.
14.3% ▲ +6.3%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.5%
- 2016: 15.3%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
33.1% ▼ -2.3%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.9%
- 2016: 34.0%
- 2021: 33.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
29.2% ▲ +12.5%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.0%
- 2016: 23.1%
- 2021: 29.2%
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 Force veterans make up 2.7% of the population, which is about the same as the state and national figures.
2.7%
Higher than 50% 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 Port Hacking [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13256/port-hacking/topic/community