4.8% ▼ -34.9%
Lower than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.4%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Fairfield Heights · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Fairfield Heights
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Few residents in Fairfield Heights engage in unpaid community work compared to other similar areas. Only 4.8% of people here volunteer, a figure that is well below the national average of 14.1%. This trend of low participation extends to housework and childcare.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very uncommon here, with only 4.8% of people helping out. This is well below both the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the Australian average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Only 16.8% of people provide unpaid childcare and 14.0% do over 15 hours of housework, both of which are well below national figures. However, 13.0% of residents provide some form of unpaid care, which is a little above the state and national averages.
13.0% ▼ -6.4%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.9%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
16.8% ▼ -21.1%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.3%
- 2016: 21.3%
- 2021: 16.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
14.0% ▼ -18.3%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.2%
- 2016: 15.5%
- 2021: 14.0%
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 less common here than in most areas, with only 0.4% of people having served. This is a little below the New South Wales figure of 2.3%.
0.4%
Lower than 74% 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 Fairfield Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11482/fairfield-heights/topic/community