17.5% ▼ -12.6%
Higher than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.0%
- 2016: 21.2%
- 2021: 17.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Cumbalum · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Cumbalum
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A huge jump in unpaid childcare defines the recent shift in Cumbalum, where 36.1% of people now provide this care. While some forms of community help have dipped since 2011, the area remains more active in volunteering than the state average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.5% of people in Cumbalum volunteer, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. This is a drop from 2011, when one in five residents volunteered.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare has surged by 16 percentage points since 2011 to reach 36.1%, a rate far above the NSW average. Meanwhile, 24.5% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, and 13.3% provide other forms of unpaid care.
13.3% ▼ -9.7%
Higher than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.7%
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
36.1% ▲ +77.0%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.4%
- 2016: 35.1%
- 2021: 36.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.5% ▼ -7.5%
Higher than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.4%
- 2016: 24.6%
- 2021: 24.5%
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 small minority of the population has served in the Defence Force, with 2.3% of residents having this experience. This is much lower than most similar areas and about the same as the state average.
2.3%
Lower than 81% 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 Cumbalum [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115050/cumbalum/topic/community