22.6% —
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 29.0%
- 2021: 22.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Reefton · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Reefton
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly one in four people in Reefton contribute their time to volunteering, making it a place where community involvement is far more common than in most other areas. This strong spirit of service is mirrored by a very high proportion of former Defence Force members living here.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is well above the national figure, with 22.6% of residents helping out, which is 8.5 percentage points higher than the Australian average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Rates of unpaid work are much lower than in most areas. Only 9.7% of people provide unpaid care, and just 19.4% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly.
9.7% —
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 29.0%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.6% —
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 41.9%
- 2021: 22.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.4% —
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 19.4%
- 2021: 19.4%
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.
Military service has a significant presence here, with 11.8% of residents having served in the Defence Force. This is well above the New South Wales figure of 2.3%.
11.8%
Higher than 99% 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 Reefton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13357/reefton/topic/community