24.3% ▲ +4.8%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.2%
- 2016: 26.6%
- 2021: 24.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Repton · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Repton
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people volunteer and provide unpaid support in Repton than in other parts of the country. Nearly a quarter of residents give their time to help others, creating a community with very high levels of unpaid work and service.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates are far above the national figure, with 24.3% of people in Repton volunteering, compared to 14.1% across Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common here, with 31.3% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, far above the 20.7% national average. This is consistent with higher rates of people providing unpaid care (15.4%) and those caring for children (27.4%).
15.4% ▲ +20.1%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 15.9%
- 2021: 15.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.4% ▼ -10.1%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.4%
- 2016: 31.0%
- 2021: 27.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
31.3% ▲ +3.4%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.3%
- 2016: 31.0%
- 2021: 31.3%
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 areas, with 4.5% of residents having served, which is a little above the New South Wales figure of 2.3%.
4.5%
Higher than 76% 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 Repton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13366/repton/topic/community