16.4% —
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 27.7%
- 2021: 16.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Rawdon Island · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Rawdon Island
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a quarter of people in Rawdon Island provide unpaid childcare, marking this as a highly active community in terms of support. Residents here are more likely to volunteer and provide care for others than the typical person across New South Wales.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.4% of people volunteer their time, which is a little above the national figure of 14.1% and well above the state average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 15.5% of people providing unpaid care, a figure well above the national average. This includes 25.5% of residents who do 15 or more hours of housework a week, which is well above both state and national levels.
15.5% —
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 15.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.4% —
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 26.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.5% —
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 34.9%
- 2021: 25.5%
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 very high in Rawdon Island, where 8.6% of people have served, a rate well above the 2.8% seen across Australia.
8.6%
Higher than 92% 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 Rawdon Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13336/rawdon-island/topic/community