14.0% ▼ -30.0%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.0%
- 2016: 22.4%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Scone · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Scone
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
About 27% of people in Scone provide unpaid childcare, which is the most common form of community contribution here. Most participation rates in the area sit close to the state and national figures, showing a community with typical patterns of volunteering and care.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is lower than in most similar areas, with 14% of residents giving their time. This is about the same as the figures for both New South Wales and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is a little above the state figure at 27%. However, those providing general unpaid care (10.9%) and those doing 15 or more hours of housework (20.9%) are both lower than in most other areas.
10.9% ▲ +6.6%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 10.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.0% ▼ -14.1%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.4%
- 2016: 28.8%
- 2021: 27.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.9% ▼ -17.8%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.5%
- 2016: 21.9%
- 2021: 20.9%
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.
About 2.7% of residents have served in the Defence Force. This is around the middle for its level and is about the same as the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
2.7%
Higher 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 Scone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13518/scone/topic/community