15.7% ▼ -46.4%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.2%
- 2016: 23.6%
- 2021: 15.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wattle Flat · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Wattle Flat
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A high proportion of veterans live in Wattle Flat, where 4.7% of the population has served in the Defence Force. This figure is much higher than in most similar areas and sits above both the state and national figures. Residents also show a tendency to provide unpaid support to others in their community.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 15.7% of people here volunteer their time, which is a little above the New South Wales figure of 13.0%. This rate is lower than most other similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care varies across the community, with 12.6% providing general unpaid care and 23.5% doing at least 15 hours of housework weekly. However, the 21.7% of people caring for children unpaid is well below the Australian figure of 26.3%.
12.6% ▼ -26.6%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.2%
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 12.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.7% ▲ +11.3%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.5%
- 2016: 18.2%
- 2021: 21.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.5% ▼ -18.0%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.6%
- 2016: 26.7%
- 2021: 23.5%
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.
The share of people who served in the Defence Force is 4.7%, which is a little above the New South Wales rate of 2.3%.
4.7%
Higher than 78% 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 Wattle Flat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14209/wattle-flat/topic/community