27.3% —
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 40.5%
- 2021: 27.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Sapphire · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Sapphire
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much higher rates of volunteering and caregiving set Sapphire apart from most similar areas. Over a quarter of the population gives their time to volunteer work, far exceeding the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 27.3% of residents volunteer, which is far above the New South Wales rate of 13% and the Australian figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very common here; 22.7% of people provide care, which is far above the 11.9% national average. This includes 36.4% of people caring for children unpaid, though the 18.2% who do 15 or more hours of housework is well below the state figure.
22.7% —
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 22.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
36.4% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 27.0%
- 2021: 36.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.2% —
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 29.7%
- 2021: 18.2%
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, which is a little below the national figure 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 Sapphire [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13505/sapphire/topic/community