17.3% ▼ -47.8%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.1%
- 2016: 27.3%
- 2021: 17.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Urbenville · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Urbenville
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Well above the state and national figures, 17.3% of people in Urbenville give their time as volunteers. This community shows a strong commitment to helping others, with a high rate of unpaid care and a notable number of former Defence Force members.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 17.3% of residents helping out, which is well above the 13.0% seen across New South Wales.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While far fewer people care for children unpaid compared to the rest of Australia, 16.9% of residents provide other types of unpaid care, a figure well above the national average. Around 23.9% of people also do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework each week.
16.9% ▲ +46.9%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.5%
- 2016: 16.2%
- 2021: 16.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
13.4% ▼ -48.2%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.8%
- 2016: 18.5%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.9% ▼ -27.2%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.9%
- 2016: 25.8%
- 2021: 23.9%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 3.9% of the population, which is higher than most similar areas and a little above the national figure of 2.8%.
3.9%
Higher than 70% 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 Urbenville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14075/urbenville/topic/community