23.5% ▼ -33.7%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.4%
- 2016: 34.4%
- 2021: 23.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Rye Park · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Rye Park
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong spirit of helping others defines daily life in Rye Park, where volunteering is far more common than in most areas. Nearly a quarter of the population gives their time to the community, a figure well above the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 23.5% of people here volunteer, which is far above the 13% seen across New South Wales and well above the Australian figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here; 18.9% of people provide unpaid care and 30.1% do over 15 hours of housework weekly, both figures well above the national average. However, the 23% of people caring for children unpaid is well below the Australian figure of 26.3%.
18.9% ▲ +53.4%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 14.0%
- 2021: 18.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.0% ▼ -3.2%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.7%
- 2016: 19.5%
- 2021: 23.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.1% ▼ -16.2%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.9%
- 2016: 23.3%
- 2021: 30.1%
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.
Around 2.6% of residents have served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the figures for both New South Wales and Australia.
2.6%
Lower than 51% 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 Rye Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13470/rye-park/topic/community