17.3% ▼ -19.2%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.4%
- 2016: 23.3%
- 2021: 17.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Rankin Park · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Rankin Park
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A much higher share of people in Rankin Park provide unpaid care compared to the rest of the state. This spirit of helping others extends to volunteering, with 17.3% of residents giving their time, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 17.3% of the community pitching in. This is well above both the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the Australian average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
The unpaid workload is heavy in Rankin Park, where 35.1% of people care for children—well above the 26.3% seen across Australia. This is consistent with a higher rate of people providing other types of unpaid care and a larger share of people doing 15 or more hours of housework.
13.8% ▼ -6.7%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.8%
- 2016: 15.2%
- 2021: 13.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
35.1% ▲ +4.7%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.6%
- 2016: 37.3%
- 2021: 35.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.3% ▼ -4.3%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.4%
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 25.3%
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. About 3.6% of residents have served in the Defence Force, which is a little above the New South Wales rate of 2.3%.
3.6%
Higher than 65% 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 Rankin Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13328/rankin-park/topic/community