21.8% ▲ +12.6%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.3%
- 2016: 38.5%
- 2021: 21.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Exeter · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Exeter
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Exeter volunteer, showing a strong local habit of helping out. This high level of community spirit is paired with a significant number of residents who spend a large amount of time on unpaid work at home.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is well above the national figure at 21.8%, a rate that is much higher than most similar areas and has risen since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid housework is very common here, with 40.9% of people doing 15 or more hours a week, which is far above the New South Wales figure. Meanwhile, 14.1% provide some form of unpaid care, and those caring for children unpaid have fallen to 22.6% since 2011.
14.1% ▲ +1.0%
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.0%
- 2016: 13.9%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.6% ▼ -29.7%
Lower than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 32.2%
- 2016: 27.8%
- 2021: 22.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
40.9% ▲ +23.7%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 33.1%
- 2016: 35.2%
- 2021: 40.9%
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.
Defence service is a little more common in Exeter than across the state, with 3.8% of residents having served in the Defence Force.
3.8%
Higher than 57% 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 Exeter [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122055/exeter/topic/community