3.8% —
Lower than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 30.0%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Widden · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Widden
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A far lower level of community and home-based support defines Widden compared to the rest of the country. Only 3.8% of people here volunteer, which is far below the national figure of 14.1%. This trend extends to unpaid care and service, where the area sits well below state and national averages.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Just 3.8% of people in Widden volunteer, a figure that is well below the New South Wales rate of 13.0% and among the lowest for similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is much lower than most areas, with only 13.8% of people caring for children and 3.8% spending 15 or more hours on housework. No one in the area provides other types of unpaid care, which is far below the national figure of 11.9%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
13.8% —
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 13.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
3.8% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 3.8%
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 Widden has served in the Defence Force, a result that is a little below the New South Wales average of 2.3%.
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 Widden [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14303/widden/topic/community