10.3% ▼ -25.5%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.8%
- 2016: 19.7%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Farley · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Farley
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Few residents in Farley volunteer compared to most other areas, though a high number of people provide unpaid childcare. Around 28.6% of the population care for children without pay, while only 10.3% of the community give their time to volunteer work.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is much lower here than in most similar areas, with only 10.3% of people participating. This is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Farley has a higher rate of people caring for children unpaid than most areas, at 28.6%. However, those doing 15 or more hours of unpaid housework are much fewer than in most other places, at just 16.5%.
10.7% ▼ -9.9%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 12.4%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
28.6% ▼ -2.0%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.2%
- 2016: 31.5%
- 2021: 28.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
16.5% ▼ -40.6%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.7%
- 2016: 22.5%
- 2021: 16.5%
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 2.6% of residents have served in the Defence Force, which is around the middle for its level and about the same as the New South Wales figure.
2.6%
Lower than 51% 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 Farley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11493/farley/topic/community