12.7% ▼ -9.4%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.0%
- 2016: 18.5%
- 2021: 12.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Seahampton · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Seahampton
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Family life and home duties take up a lot of time for many people in Seahampton. The area is marked by a very high own-home care rate, with 37.6% of people caring for children unpaid, which is far above the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is less common here than in most other areas, with only 12.7% of residents giving their time. This is about the same as the New South Wales rate of 13.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Homely duties are a big part of life in Seahampton, where 26.6% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly. This is well above the Australian figure of 20.7%, and 14.0% of residents provide some form of unpaid care.
14.0% ▲ +59.3%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
37.6% ▼ -3.2%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.8%
- 2016: 40.5%
- 2021: 37.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.6% ▲ +5.2%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.3%
- 2016: 21.6%
- 2021: 26.6%
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 2.6% of the population have served in the Defence Force. This is around the middle for similar areas and about the same as the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
2.6%
Higher than 50% 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 Seahampton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13526/seahampton/topic/community