5.8% ▼ -29.3%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 5.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Warrawong · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Warrawong
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Warrawong involves a high level of unpaid care for others, even though formal volunteering is quite low. Only 5.8% of people here volunteer, which is well below the national figure. This suggests community support in the area happens more through private care than through organised groups.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is among the lowest for areas like this, with only 5.8% of residents helping out. This is well below the 13% seen across New South Wales.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care is more common here than in most areas, with 14.8% of people doing so. This stands in contrast to the lower rates of people caring for children unpaid (21.3%) or doing 15 or more hours of housework (19.6%), both of which are below the national figures.
14.8% ▲ +11.4%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.3% ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.4%
- 2016: 23.7%
- 2021: 21.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.6% ▼ -10.4%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.8%
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 19.6%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 1.5% of the population. This is lower than most similar areas and a little below the Australian average of 2.8%.
1.5%
Lower than 63% 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 Warrawong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14185/warrawong/topic/community