24.7% ▼ -21.4%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.4%
- 2016: 32.9%
- 2021: 24.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Hay South · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Hay South
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people volunteer in Hay South than in most similar areas. Around 25% of residents give their time to help others, a figure that is far above both the state and national averages.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 24.7% of people helping out. This is 11 percentage points higher than the Australian figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is much lower than in most areas at 16.3%. Similarly, only 15.9% of people do 15 or more hours of housework, which is well below the national figure of 20.7%.
11.9% ▲ +16.9%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 11.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
16.3% ▼ -31.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.6%
- 2016: 23.1%
- 2021: 16.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
15.9% ▼ -29.3%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.5%
- 2016: 19.0%
- 2021: 15.9%
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 1.6% of residents have served in the Defence Force. This is lower than most similar areas and a little below the 2.8% seen across Australia.
1.6%
Lower than 63% 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 Hay South [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11882/hay-south/topic/community