20.3% ▼ -19.2%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.1%
- 2016: 27.2%
- 2021: 20.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Seaforth · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Seaforth
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Well above the national average, 20.3% of people in Seaforth volunteer their time. This high level of community involvement is a defining feature of the area, with residents showing a much stronger tendency to help out and care for others than those in the wider state.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 20.3% of residents giving their time. This is well above the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is much higher than most areas at 34.2%, which is well above the national figure of 26.3%. This is consistent with a higher rate of people doing 15 or more hours of unpaid housework (26.1%), though the number of people providing other types of unpaid care is a little below the Australian average.
10.9% ▼ -17.1%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 10.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
34.2% ▼ -6.2%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.5%
- 2016: 36.9%
- 2021: 34.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.1% ▼ -0.5%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.2%
- 2016: 24.3%
- 2021: 26.1%
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.
About 1.9% of residents have served in the Defence Force. This is lower than most similar areas and sits about the same as the New South Wales and national figures.
1.9%
Lower than 60% 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 Seaforth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13524/seaforth/topic/community