18.2% ▼ -28.5%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.4%
- 2016: 36.6%
- 2021: 18.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Delegate · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Delegate
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Significant drops in unpaid care and volunteering have changed how people contribute in Delegate (L) since 2011. While 18.2% of residents still volunteer, which is well above the national figure, this is a 7.3 percentage point fall over the last decade.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 18.2% of people in Delegate (L) volunteer. This is well above the New South Wales rate of 13.0%, though it sits around the middle when compared to similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care has fallen across the board since 2011, with those caring for children dropping 18 points to 11.4%, a figure far below the Australian average. People providing any unpaid care or doing 15+ hours of housework are also much lower than in most other areas.
10.2% ▼ -29.9%
Lower than 82% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.6%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 10.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
11.4% ▼ -61.2%
Lower than 97% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 29.3%
- 2016: 16.0%
- 2021: 11.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.0% ▼ -32.7%
Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 31.3%
- 2016: 29.8%
- 2021: 21.0%
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 number of residents than usual have served in the Defence Force. At 4.1%, this is a little above both the New South Wales figure of 2.3% and the national figure of 2.8%.
4.1%
Higher than 64% 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 Delegate [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122050/delegate/topic/community