22.0% ▼ -18.6%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.0%
- 2016: 28.4%
- 2021: 22.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bywong · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bywong
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly a quarter of the population in Bywong now helps out as volunteers, making it a community with very high levels of active participation. Residents here are much more likely to give their time to others and provide unpaid care than people across the rest of the state.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common in Bywong, where 22.0% of people help out. This is well above the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is frequent here, with 28.4% of people caring for children and 26.0% doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly. Both figures are well above the state and national averages. Additionally, 13.3% of residents provide some form of unpaid care, which is a little above the national figure of 11.9%.
13.3% ▼ -9.0%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.6%
- 2016: 11.4%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
28.4% ▼ -10.0%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.5%
- 2016: 30.5%
- 2021: 28.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.0% ▼ -11.8%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.5%
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 26.0%
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.
Defence service is common in Bywong, where 7.8% of people have served. This is among the highest rates for similar areas and is well above the 2.8% national figure.
7.8%
Higher than 91% 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 Bywong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10733/bywong/topic/community