19.0% ▼ -18.4%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.3%
- 2016: 26.3%
- 2021: 19.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Vacy · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Vacy
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a third of people in Vacy provide unpaid childcare, making it a place with very high rates of family and community support. Local residents are notably active in their area, with 19% volunteering and a higher-than-usual number of veterans living here.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Nearly one in five people volunteer here, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Family and home duties are common in Vacy; 35% of people care for children unpaid and 33.6% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, both of which are far above the national figures. General unpaid care is 12.0%, which is about the same as the rest of Australia.
12.0% ▲ +8.0%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 13.8%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
35.0% ▲ +28.0%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.3%
- 2016: 38.5%
- 2021: 35.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
33.6% ▲ +23.9%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.1%
- 2016: 27.8%
- 2021: 33.6%
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 4.2% of the population, which is higher than most similar areas and a little above the 2.8% national average.
4.2%
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 Vacy [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14081/vacy/topic/community