20.0% —
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 39.1%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Rockton · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Rockton
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A quarter of residents provide unpaid care in Rockton, a figure far above the national average. This community is highly active in supporting others, with volunteering rates well above those seen across New South Wales and Australia.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 20.0% of people pitching in. This is well above the 14.1% national figure and the 13.0% seen across New South Wales.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 25.0% of people provide unpaid care—far above the national figure—no one in the area is doing so for children. Meanwhile, 20.0% spend 15 or more hours a week on unpaid housework, which is about the same as the Australian average.
25.0% —
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 25.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.0% —
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 43.5%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did 15 hours or more of unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census.
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 Rockton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13397/rockton/topic/community