14.1% ▼ -38.2%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.8%
- 2016: 20.5%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mulwala · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mulwala
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
About 23.8% of people in Mulwala do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework each week. This is a higher rate than the national figure. While many residents contribute to their homes and community, the area has a lower proportion of unpaid childcare providers than the state and national averages.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is steady in Mulwala, with 14.1% of people pitching in. This is about the same as the Australian average and slightly above the New South Wales rate of 13.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is well below the national figure at 22.2%. However, 11.5% of residents provide other forms of unpaid care, which is about the same as across Australia.
11.5% ▲ +6.9%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.8%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.2% ▼ -5.1%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.3%
- 2016: 23.4%
- 2021: 22.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.8% ▼ -11.3%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.9%
- 2016: 23.8%
- 2021: 23.8%
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 than usual proportion of residents have served in the Defence Force. At 3.6%, this is a little above the New South Wales rate of 2.3%.
3.6%
Higher than 66% 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 Mulwala [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12841/mulwala/topic/community