5.9% ▼ -59.2%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Rothbury · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Rothbury
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement has remained very low in Rothbury, where local participation in volunteering and unpaid care is far below national levels. Only 5.9% of residents volunteer, which is one of the lowest rates for areas of this type.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Just 5.9% of people in Rothbury volunteer their time, a figure that is well below both the New South Wales rate of 13.0% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is uncommon here; only 11.8% do 15 or more hours of housework, and 13.7% provide unpaid childcare. Both figures are far below the state and national averages, while no residents reported providing other types of unpaid care.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
13.7% ▼ -45.4%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.1%
- 2021: 13.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
11.8% ▼ -49.2%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.1%
- 2021: 11.8%
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.
No one in Rothbury has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
0.0%
Lower 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 Rothbury [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13435/rothbury/topic/community