13.0% —
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 30.6%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Valery · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Valery
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Valery involves a high amount of housework but very little unpaid care for others. While 32.6% of people spend 15 or more hours a week on housework, there are no residents providing unpaid care for people with disabilities or the elderly.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 13.0% of people here volunteer, which is much lower than most similar areas. This figure is about the same as the New South Wales average and a little below the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Very few people in Valery provide unpaid care, with 0.0% caring for others and only 10.9% caring for children, both of which are far below national figures. In contrast, those doing 15 or more hours of housework are far more common here than elsewhere, at 32.6%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
10.9% —
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 34.3%
- 2021: 10.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
32.6% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 35.2%
- 2021: 32.6%
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.
No residents in Valery have served in the Defence Force, a figure that is lower than most areas and a little below the national average of 2.8%.
0.0%
Lower 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 Valery [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14084/valery/topic/community