30.3% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 30.8%
- 2021: 30.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Royal National Park · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Royal National Park
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people volunteer here than in most other areas, with Royal National Park seeing a remarkably high level of community involvement. About 30% of residents give their time to volunteering, which is more than double the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common in the area, with 30.3% of people helping out, far above the 14.1% seen across Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 30.3% of people provide unpaid childcare—well above the national figure of 26.3%—nobody in the area provides other forms of unpaid care. Similarly, only 12.1% spend 15 or more hours on housework, which is well below the national figure of 20.7%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.3% —
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 30.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
12.1% —
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 12.1%
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 the area has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is a little below the national average of 2.8%.
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 Royal National Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13448/royal-national-park/topic/community