8.2% ▼ -19.8%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 8.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Allawah · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Allawah
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Only 20.8% of people in Allawah provide unpaid child care, which is a much lower figure than the national average. This lack of unpaid care is part of a wider trend across the area, where residents are far less likely to volunteer or perform unpaid work than people in other parts of Australia.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very low here, with only 8.2% of people taking part. This is well below the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is uncommon in the area. Only 18.1% of people do 15 or more hours of housework a week, and just 9.7% provide any form of unpaid care, both of which are lower than most other areas.
9.7% ▲ +11.8%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 10.2%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.8% ▼ -9.2%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.9%
- 2016: 23.4%
- 2021: 20.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.1% ▲ +11.7%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.2%
- 2016: 16.5%
- 2021: 18.1%
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 also less common here than in other regions. Only 0.6% of residents have served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the national figure of 2.8%.
0.6%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality 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 Allawah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10038/allawah/topic/community