18.5% —
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Uriarra · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Uriarra
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Forty-four percent of people in Uriarra provide unpaid childcare, which is far above the national figure. This high rate of family care sits alongside a strong history of military service and a high proportion of volunteers.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 18.5% of people helping out, which is well above the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 44.4% of residents provide unpaid childcare—far above the 26.3% Australian average—only 11.1% do 15 or more hours of housework, which is well below the national figure. Unpaid care for others is 11.1%, about the same as the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
11.1% —
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
44.4% —
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
11.1% —
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
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 very high 13.6% of people in Uriarra have served in the Defence Force, which is far above the national figure of 2.8%.
13.6%
Higher 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 Uriarra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14076/uriarra/topic/community