17.2% ▼ -23.7%
Higher than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.5%
- 2016: 17.2%
- 2021: 17.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Narrandera · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Narrandera
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Well above the state average, 17.2% of people in Narrandera volunteer their time. This strong spirit of giving stands out against the rest of New South Wales, even though the number of volunteers has dropped since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
While 17.2% of residents volunteer, this is a fall of 5.3 percentage points from 2011. This rate remains well above both the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care is a little more common here than in the state or nation, with 13.5% of people helping out. However, the proportion of people caring for children unpaid is 22.9%, which is well below the Australian figure of 26.3%.
13.5% ▲ +20.8%
Higher than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.9% ▼ -20.7%
Lower than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.9%
- 2016: 22.0%
- 2021: 22.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.6% ▼ -20.4%
Lower than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.9%
- 2016: 25.6%
- 2021: 20.6%
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 state average of 2.3%, about 3.4% of the people in Narrandera have served in the Defence Force.
3.4%
Lower than 55% 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 Narrandera [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115110/narrandera/topic/community