9.8% ▼ -19.5%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.2%
- 2016: 14.5%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Pemulwuy · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Pemulwuy
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over a third of people in Pemulwuy provide unpaid child care, a figure well above the national average. While family care is very common here, other forms of community work and service are less frequent. This creates a profile where home-based care dominates over formal volunteering or military service.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 9.8% of residents volunteer their time, which is much lower than most similar areas and well below the Australian figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
The 34.5% of people caring for children unpaid is well above the New South Wales figure of 25.3%. Meanwhile, 22.7% do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, and 10.4% provide other unpaid care, which is a little below the national rate.
10.4% ▲ +10.7%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 10.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
34.5% ▼ -8.2%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.5%
- 2016: 39.6%
- 2021: 34.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.7% ▲ +21.4%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.7%
- 2016: 19.6%
- 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 Force veterans make up 0.8% of the population, a little below the national figure of 2.8%.
0.8%
Lower than 69% 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 Pemulwuy [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13192/pemulwuy/topic/community