12.4% ▼ -20.2%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.5%
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 12.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Fairy Meadow · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Fairy Meadow
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Fairy Meadow is marked by lower rates of unpaid care and volunteering compared to other similar suburbs. Only 12.4% of residents volunteer, and the number of people providing unpaid childcare is well below the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates are much lower than in most areas, with 12.4% of people helping out. This is about the same as the New South Wales figure of 13.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Only 21.6% of people provide unpaid childcare, which is well below the national figure of 26.3%. Meanwhile, 12.8% of residents provide some form of unpaid care, slightly above the New South Wales rate of 11.5%.
12.8% ▼ -1.5%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 12.8%
- 2021: 12.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.6% ▼ -15.0%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.4%
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 21.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.8% ▼ -2.4%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.3%
- 2016: 18.9%
- 2021: 20.8%
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 2.1% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the 2.3% seen across New South Wales.
2.1%
Lower than 58% 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 Fairy Meadow [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11487/fairy-meadow/topic/community