17.9% ▼ -32.7%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.6%
- 2016: 22.5%
- 2021: 17.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
South Pambula · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in South Pambula
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over a third of people in South Pambula provide unpaid childcare, making it a community with high levels of family and domestic support. This local commitment to caring is mirrored in other areas, including a strong turnout for volunteering and a higher-than-average number of veterans.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 17.9% of people pitching in. This is well above both 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.
Domestic work and childcare are very high in this area, with 34.7% caring for children and 31.3% doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly. Both figures are far above the national and state averages. Meanwhile, 13.4% of people provide some form of unpaid care, which is a little above the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
13.4% ▲ +1.8%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.2%
- 2016: 12.7%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
34.7% ▲ +16.3%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.9%
- 2016: 27.9%
- 2021: 34.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
31.3% ▲ +44.2%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.7%
- 2016: 27.1%
- 2021: 31.3%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 4.2% of the population. This is higher than most similar areas and sits a little above the state and national figures.
4.2%
Higher than 74% 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 South Pambula [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13611/south-pambula/topic/community