15.0% —
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wards Mistake · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Wards Mistake
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
The way people contribute their time has shifted since 2011, with Wards Mistake now seeing a very high proportion of residents providing unpaid support. Roughly 40% of people here look after children without pay, which is far above the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 15% of residents volunteer their time. This is a little above the New South Wales average, though it is lower than most similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common here, with 35% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly. This is far above the national figure, and 20% of residents provide some form of unpaid care, which is well above the state average.
20.0% —
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
40.0% —
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
35.0% —
Higher than 89% 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.
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 Wards Mistake [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14164/wards-mistake/topic/community