7.6% ▼ -35.8%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mount Thorley · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mount Thorley
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Few people in Mount Thorley volunteer compared to other similar areas, but many more of the residents provide unpaid care. This community is marked by a high rate of people looking after children and a strong presence of former Defence Force members.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 7.6% of people here volunteer, which is among the lowest for its area type and well below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
A high 30.3% of residents provide unpaid child care, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 25.3%. Meanwhile, 12.1% provide other unpaid care and 22.7% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, both of which are about the same as the national average.
12.1% ▲ +18.0%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.3%
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 12.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.3% ▲ +6.1%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.6%
- 2016: 26.3%
- 2021: 30.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.7% ▼ -7.1%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.5%
- 2016: 15.8%
- 2021: 22.7%
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 service is much more common here than in most similar areas, with 4.5% of people having served, a little above the national rate of 2.8%.
4.5%
Higher than 76% 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 Mount Thorley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12805/mount-thorley/topic/community