18.7% ▼ -2.9%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.3%
- 2016: 22.3%
- 2021: 18.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Swansea Heads · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Swansea Heads
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people in Swansea Heads contribute to their community through unpaid work and volunteering than in most similar areas. Nearly 19% of residents volunteer, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. This spirit of helping others extends into the home, where unpaid care is much more common than across the rest of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 18.7% of people here volunteer their time. This is well above the 13.0% seen across New South Wales and the 14.1% national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common here, with 15.4% of people providing unpaid care, a figure well above the national average. This is reflected in the home, where 26.2% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, and 27.4% care for children without pay.
15.4% ▲ +14.5%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.4%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 15.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.4% ▼ -16.9%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.0%
- 2016: 28.8%
- 2021: 27.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.2% ▼ -7.4%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.3%
- 2016: 25.4%
- 2021: 26.2%
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 3.1% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the figures for both New South Wales and Australia.
3.1%
Higher than 58% 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 Swansea Heads [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13727/swansea-heads/topic/community