10.5% ▼ -35.6%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.4%
- 2016: 17.6%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Telopea · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Telopea
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Fewer people give their time to community groups in Telopea compared to other parts of the country. Only 10.5% of residents volunteer, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%. This suggests a lower level of formal community involvement for the area.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is much lower here than in most similar areas. The 10.5% rate is a little below the New South Wales figure and well below the Australian average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
About 25.5% of people provide unpaid childcare, which is about the same as the state and national figures. Rates of people providing other unpaid care or doing 15 or more hours of housework are lower than most areas.
11.3% ▲ +2.8%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.0%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 11.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.5% ▲ +1.8%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 27.2%
- 2021: 25.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.8% ▲ +6.0%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.6%
- 2016: 18.9%
- 2021: 20.8%
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 1.1% of the population. This is lower than most similar areas and a little below both the state and national figures.
1.1%
Lower than 67% 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 Telopea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13797/telopea/topic/community