11.7% ▼ -33.7%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.7%
- 2016: 21.5%
- 2021: 11.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Harwood · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Harwood
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Harwood involves a high level of home-based work, with 29.5% of people spending 15 or more hours a week on unpaid housework. This is well above both the state and national figures. While many residents focus on the home, other forms of community involvement are less common.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 11.7% of people in Harwood volunteer, which is much lower than most similar areas and a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
A high 29.5% of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly, well above the New South Wales figure of 21.2%. Meanwhile, 25.3% provide unpaid childcare, which is about the same as the state average.
12.8% ▼ -15.9%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.2%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 12.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.3% ▲ +2.5%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.7%
- 2016: 26.7%
- 2021: 25.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
29.5% ▼ -3.8%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.7%
- 2016: 29.1%
- 2021: 29.5%
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.
Defence Force service is common enough that 3.2% of people have served, a figure that is about the same as the national average of 2.8%.
3.2%
Higher 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 Harwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11872/harwood/topic/community