22.5% ▼ -24.8%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.9%
- 2016: 29.5%
- 2021: 22.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mendooran · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mendooran
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Mendooran volunteer their time, a rate far higher than the national figure. This strong spirit of giving defines daily life here, as residents are more likely to support their community and care for others than people in most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common in Mendooran, with 22.5% of people helping out. This is well above the 14.1% national figure and the 13.0% seen across New South Wales.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care is more common here than in most areas, with 14.3% of people involved. While 24.3% do 15 or more hours of housework—well above the national figure—only 22.9% provide unpaid childcare, which is well below the Australian average of 26.3%.
14.3% ▼ -26.5%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.5%
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.9% ▼ -1.9%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.4%
- 2016: 24.6%
- 2021: 22.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.3% ▼ -32.9%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.2%
- 2016: 30.6%
- 2021: 24.3%
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.
A higher proportion of people here have served in the Defence Force compared to most areas. At 3.8%, this is a little above the New South Wales figure of 2.3% and about the same as the Australian average of 2.8%.
3.8%
Higher than 68% 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 Mendooran [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12581/mendooran/topic/community