35.9% ▲ +2.9%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.9%
- 2016: 31.4%
- 2021: 35.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
St Albans · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in St Albans
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a third of people in St Albans spend their time helping others, marking it as a place with very high levels of local activity. While few residents are caring for children, a large proportion of the population is heavily involved in unpaid housework and community service.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is incredibly common here, with 35.9% of people pitching in. This is far above the own national figure of 14.1% and among the highest rates for similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While the 19.0% of people caring for children is well below the national figure, other home duties are common. This is seen in the 39.4% of people doing 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, a rate far above the New South Wales figure of 21.2%.
14.1% ▼ -13.8%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.3%
- 2016: 7.2%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.0% ▼ -18.9%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.4%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 19.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
39.4% ▲ +42.7%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.6%
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 39.4%
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 2.9% of residents have served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the 2.8% seen across Australia.
2.9%
Higher than 54% 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 St Albans [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13645/st-albans/topic/community