15.5% ▼ -20.3%
Higher than 59% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 19.4%
- 2016: 19.0%
- 2021: 15.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Newtown · State Electorate
Community Participation in Newtown
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Fewer people perform unpaid care and domestic work in Newtown than in most other similar areas. This local trend is striking, with only 13.8% of residents providing unpaid childcare, a figure far below the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 15.5% of residents volunteer, which is a little above the national figure of 14.1%. However, this level of community involvement has fallen by 3.9 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is much less common here, with only 13.1% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework, well below the 20.7% national average. Similarly, providing general unpaid care is among the lowest for its level at 7.9%.
7.9% ▼ -42.5%
Lower than 94% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
13.8% ▼ -41.6%
Lower than 98% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 23.6%
- 2016: 14.2%
- 2021: 13.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
13.1% ▼ -53.9%
Lower than 94% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 28.5%
- 2016: 9.0%
- 2021: 13.1%
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.
Only 1.2% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is much lower than most areas and a little below the 2.8% seen across Australia.
1.2%
Lower than 91% of state electorate 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 Newtown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10059/newtown/topic/community