17.5% ▼ -28.9%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.6%
- 2016: 25.1%
- 2021: 17.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Windellama · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Windellama
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people in Windellama volunteer and serve in the military than is typical for the rest of the state. While 17.5% of residents give their time to volunteering, the area also sees a much higher rate of former and current defence force members than the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.5% of people here volunteer, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Housework is common here, with 33.3% of people doing 15 or more hours a week, far above the 20.7% national figure. However, those providing unpaid care for children are much fewer than in most areas, at just 16.9%.
11.9% ▲ +1.4%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 13.9%
- 2021: 11.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
16.9% ▼ -15.6%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.1%
- 2016: 18.8%
- 2021: 16.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
33.3% ▲ +34.3%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.8%
- 2016: 27.7%
- 2021: 33.3%
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.
Defence service is much more common here than in most areas, with 6.3% of people having served, well above the 2.8% seen across Australia.
6.3%
Higher than 87% 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 Windellama [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14336/windellama/topic/community