17.4% ▼ -13.6%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.1%
- 2016: 21.7%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Woronora · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Woronora
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a quarter of people in Woronora provide unpaid care for children, marking this as the most common form of community contribution in the area. Residents are generally more active in supporting others than people across the state and country. This is seen in higher rates of volunteering and housework compared to national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 17.4% of people giving their time. This is well above the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is a significant part of life in Woronora, where 13.9% of people provide unpaid care, which is higher than most areas. This includes 25.4% of residents doing 15 or more hours of housework, a figure well above the Australian average of 20.7%.
13.9% ▲ +13.8%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.2%
- 2016: 12.9%
- 2021: 13.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.1% ▼ -23.2%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.3%
- 2016: 33.4%
- 2021: 27.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.4% ▼ -2.5%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.0%
- 2016: 24.3%
- 2021: 25.4%
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 2.7% of the population have served in the Defence Force. This is about the same as both the New South Wales figure of 2.3% and the national figure of 2.8%.
2.7%
Higher than 51% 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 Woronora [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14438/woronora/topic/community