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Mayfield · Suburb / Locality

Community Participation in Mayfield

How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.

A striking 14% of people in Mayfield have served in the Defence Force, which is far above the national figure. While the area has a very high rate of people providing unpaid childcare, it sees much lower levels of volunteering than most other areas.

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📍 Mayfield, Suburb / Locality

Where Mayfield sits — Volunteers

9.3% —

All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Mayfield — lower than 88% of areas.

Mayfield9.3%
2580, NSW 14.6%
New South Wales 13.0%
Australia 14.1%

Participation

Volunteering for organisations and groups.

Only 9.3% of residents volunteer, a figure that is well below both the New South Wales rate of 13.0% and the Australian average of 14.1%.

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9.3% —

Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.

Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.

Unpaid care & work

Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.

Unpaid care is common here, with 37.2% of people caring for children—far above the national figure of 26.3%. This is consistent with a higher than usual 27.9% of residents doing 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, though 0.0% of people provide other types of unpaid care.

Defence service

People who served in the Australian Defence Force.

Defence service is very common in Mayfield, where 14.0% of people have served, far above the 2.8% seen across Australia.

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 Mayfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12542/mayfield/topic/community