5.4% ▼ -19.1%
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 5.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Villawood · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Villawood
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Only 9.9% of people provide unpaid care in Villawood, which is a little below the national figure. This low rate of caregiving is part of a broader trend where residents are much less likely to spend their time on unpaid community or household work compared to other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 5.4% of people volunteer their time, a figure that is well below the New South Wales rate of 13.0% and among the lowest for similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is far less common here, with only 19.4% of people caring for children and 14.0% doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, both of which are well below national figures.
9.9% ▼ -19.2%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.2%
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 9.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.4% ▼ -5.2%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.4%
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 19.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
14.0% ▼ -5.4%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.8%
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 14.0%
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 service is also less common in Villawood, with 0.8% of people having served, which is a little below the 2.8% seen across Australia.
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 Villawood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14092/villawood/topic/community