26.1% —
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 26.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Suntop · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Suntop
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a quarter of people in Suntop give their time to help others, making it a place where community effort is common. This spirit of helping is most visible in the high rate of volunteering and the very large number of people caring for children.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 26.1% of residents pitching in. This is far above the 13% seen in New South Wales and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Half of all residents provide unpaid childcare, which is far above the national figure of 26.3%. In contrast, those doing 15 or more hours of housework (17.4%) and those providing other unpaid care (6.5%) are both well below the state and national averages.
6.5% —
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 6.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
50.0% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 51.0%
- 2021: 50.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
17.4% —
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 31.4%
- 2021: 17.4%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the New South Wales rate of 2.3% and the Australian average of 2.8%.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Suntop [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13711/suntop/topic/community