12.0% ▼ -29.4%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.0%
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Failford · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Failford
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly a third of people in Failford do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework each week, a figure far above the national average. This high level of home-based work stands out in a place where other forms of community contribution are less common.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 12% of residents volunteer, which is much lower than most similar areas and sits a little below the New South Wales figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 12.6% of people provide unpaid care, which is about the same as the national figure, those caring for children unpaid (21.6%) are well below the state and national averages. This contrasts with the 31.8% of people doing heavy unpaid housework, a rate far above the rest of the country.
12.6% ▼ -2.7%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 12.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.6% ▲ +15.4%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.7%
- 2016: 16.5%
- 2021: 21.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
31.8% ▼ -18.3%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.9%
- 2016: 33.9%
- 2021: 31.8%
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 2.9% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the figures for both New South Wales and Australia.
2.9%
Higher than 54% 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 Failford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11479/failford/topic/community