22.7% —
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 27.2%
- 2021: 22.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wellingrove · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Wellingrove
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Well over double the national rate of volunteering is seen in Wellingrove, where 22.7% of people give their time to a cause. This strong spirit of community service stands out in a place where few people provide unpaid care for children.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 22.7% of residents helping out. This is well above the figures for both New South Wales (13.0%) and Australia (14.1%).
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Only 12.5% of people provide unpaid childcare, which is far below the national figure of 26.3%. However, 29.5% of residents spend 15 or more hours a week on unpaid housework, a rate well above the New South Wales figure of 21.2%.
11.4% —
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 11.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
12.5% —
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 12.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
29.5% —
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 29.5%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the national average of 2.8%.
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 Wellingrove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14237/wellingrove/topic/community