18.0% ▲ +44.6%
Higher than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.4%
- 2016: 15.7%
- 2021: 18.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Riverside · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Riverside
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people in Riverside (L) are stepping up to help others than a decade ago. Since 2011, there has been a sharp rise in those doing unpaid housework and volunteering, with 18% of residents now giving their time to community groups.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering has climbed by 5.5 percentage points since 2011. At 18%, the number of volunteers is now well above the New South Wales figure of 13%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common here, with 36.4% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework—a figure far above the national average. This sits alongside a high rate of general unpaid care (19.2%) and about a quarter of residents caring for children.
19.2% ▲ +50.5%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 19.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.5% ▲ +25.3%
Higher than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.4%
- 2016: 24.5%
- 2021: 25.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
36.4% ▲ +77.9%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.5%
- 2016: 20.1%
- 2021: 36.4%
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.
About 3% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
3.0%
Lower than 67% 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 Riverside [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122115/riverside/topic/community