22.9% ▼ -9.3%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.3%
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 22.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Piallaway · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Piallaway
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people get involved in helping others in Piallaway than in most similar areas. This is seen in the high rate of volunteering and the large number of residents providing unpaid care for others. Roughly 23% of the community volunteer their time, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 22.9% of people helping out. This is well above the 13.0% seen across New South Wales and the 14.1% average for Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common in Piallaway, with 24.0% of people providing care, far above the national figure of 11.9%. This includes a very high 40.6% of people caring for children unpaid and 27.1% doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly.
24.0% ▲ +66.0%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 24.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
40.6% ▲ +20.0%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.8%
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 40.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.1% ▲ +5.6%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.6%
- 2016: 27.7%
- 2021: 27.1%
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.
People who have served in the Defence Force make up 4.1% of the population. This is higher than most areas and a little above the national figure of 2.8%.
4.1%
Higher than 73% 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 Piallaway [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13208/piallaway/topic/community