12.2% ▼ -53.6%
Lower than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.3%
- 2016: 28.1%
- 2021: 12.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Frederickton · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Frederickton
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Frederickton provide unpaid childcare, which is the most common form of community contribution here. However, overall volunteering has dropped sharply over the last decade. The area now shows lower levels of unpaid work and volunteering than most similar places.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering has fallen by 14 percentage points since 2011, with only 12.2% of people now volunteering. This is much lower than most areas and slightly below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is provided by 21.4% of residents, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 25.3%. While 12.7% provide some form of unpaid care, the number of people doing 15 or more hours of housework fell to 18.7% since 2011.
12.7% ▼ -7.2%
Lower than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 12.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.4% ▼ -2.1%
Lower than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.9%
- 2016: 29.7%
- 2021: 21.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.7% ▼ -20.6%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.6%
- 2016: 24.0%
- 2021: 18.7%
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 higher proportion of people in Frederickton have served in the Defence Force compared to most areas. At 4.1%, this is a little above both the state figure of 2.3% and the national figure of 2.8%.
4.1%
Higher than 63% 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 Frederickton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115061/frederickton/topic/community