14.4% ▼ -23.1%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.7%
- 2016: 18.4%
- 2021: 14.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wauchope · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Wauchope
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much higher rates of unpaid care than most similar areas define Wauchope. While 15.7% of residents provide unpaid care, a little over 14% of the community also spends time volunteering.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.4% of people in Wauchope volunteer, which is a little above the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and roughly the same as the national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care is common here, with 15.7% of residents doing so, a figure well above both the state and national averages. Around 24.1% look after children unpaid, while 22.6% do more than 15 hours of housework a week.
15.7% ▲ +14.2%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 15.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.1% ▼ -19.0%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.8%
- 2016: 25.8%
- 2021: 24.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.6% ▼ -18.2%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.6%
- 2016: 24.9%
- 2021: 22.6%
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.
A higher proportion of residents have served in the Defence Force compared to most areas, with 3.7% of the population being veterans, a little above the New South Wales rate.
3.7%
Higher than 67% 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 Wauchope [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14214/wauchope/topic/community