20.8% —
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 29.0%
- 2021: 20.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wanganella · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Wanganella
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people in Wanganella volunteer than in most similar areas. About 20.8% of residents give their time to help others, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 20.8% of people helping out, a figure well above the 13.0% seen across New South Wales.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is more frequent than in most areas at 29.2%, but 0.0% of residents provide other types of unpaid care, which is far below the national figure of 11.9%. Meanwhile, those doing over 15 hours of housework each week are much fewer than in most areas.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.9%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
29.2% —
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 21.7%
- 2021: 29.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
14.6% —
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 14.6%
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 service is less common here than in other places, with 0.0% of the population having served in the Defence Force.
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 Wanganella [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14151/wanganella/topic/community