18.6% ▼ -29.2%
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.3%
- 2016: 25.5%
- 2021: 18.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Berridale · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Berridale
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly one in five people in Berridale volunteer, making it a community with a much higher rate of unpaid help than most similar areas. While local volunteering is strong, the number of people providing unpaid care and housework has fallen since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 18.6% of people pitching in, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. However, this is down from 26.3% in 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is less common than in most areas, with only 9.6% of people providing it. Similarly, those doing 15 or more hours of housework are much fewer than in most areas, falling to 20.7% since 2011.
9.6% ▼ -30.8%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.9%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.9% ▲ +8.8%
Lower than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.0%
- 2016: 13.9%
- 2021: 22.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.7% ▼ -35.2%
Lower than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 31.9%
- 2016: 23.4%
- 2021: 20.7%
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.
A little more than the national average of 2.8% have served in the Defence Force, with 3.8% of Berridale residents having this experience.
3.8%
Higher than 58% of urban centre 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 Berridale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115016/berridale/topic/community