9.9% ▼ -29.0%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.9%
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 9.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Thornton · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Thornton
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A striking gap exists between Thornton and the rest of the country in how people contribute to their community. While the area has a very high number of former Defence Force members, it has a much lower rate of volunteering than the state and national averages.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 9.9% of people in Thornton volunteer, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the national average of 14.1%. This is much lower than most similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is very common here, with 32.9% of people providing this care, a figure well above the Australian average of 26.3%. Meanwhile, 13.0% of residents provide some form of unpaid care, which is a little above the national figure.
13.0% ▲ +4.7%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.4%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
32.9% ▼ -13.0%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.8%
- 2016: 37.1%
- 2021: 32.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.9% ▼ -15.9%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.1%
- 2016: 24.8%
- 2021: 21.9%
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.
Service to the country is common in Thornton, where 6.7% of people have served in the Defence Force. This is well above the New South Wales rate of 2.3% and much higher than most other areas.
6.7%
Higher than 88% 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 Thornton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13867/thornton/topic/community