10.0% —
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 18.3%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mourquong · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mourquong
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Few people in Mourquong spend their spare time volunteering, but a large number put in significant hours at home. This is a place where unpaid domestic work is very common, while formal community volunteering is much lower than the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 10% of people here volunteer, which is much lower than in most other areas and well below the Australian figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid housework is very common, with 35% of people doing 15 or more hours a week, far above the national figure of 20.7%. In contrast, 0% of residents provide unpaid care for others, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 11.5%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.3% —
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 23.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
35.0% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 18.3%
- 2021: 35.0%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the state and national figures.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Mourquong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12820/mourquong/topic/community