12.4% ▼ -29.5%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.6%
- 2016: 19.9%
- 2021: 12.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wilberforce · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Wilberforce
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A high rate of unpaid home and childcare sets Wilberforce apart from the rest of the state. While 28.9% of people here provide unpaid childcare, volunteering is much lower than in most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 12.4% of residents volunteer, which is much lower than most similar areas and a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Many people here take on unpaid work, with 27% spending 15 or more hours a week on housework, well above the New South Wales figure of 21.2%. This is consistent with the 28.9% who provide unpaid childcare, a rate well above the state average.
12.1% ▲ +1.8%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 12.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
28.9% ▼ -10.7%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.3%
- 2016: 32.1%
- 2021: 28.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.0% ▲ +4.8%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.8%
- 2016: 24.7%
- 2021: 27.0%
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.
About 3% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the 2.8% recorded across Australia.
3.0%
Higher than 56% 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 Wilberforce [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14305/wilberforce/topic/community