17.5% —
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.8%
- 2021: 17.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wylies Flat · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Wylies Flat
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A high rate of volunteering defines daily life in Wylies Flat, where 17.5% of people give their time to help others. This is well above the national figure of 14.1% and the New South Wales rate of 13.0%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.5% of residents volunteer their time, which is around the middle for similar areas but well above both the state and national figures.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 32.5% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework—far above the national figure of 20.7%—very few provide unpaid care. Only 7.5% provide unpaid care, which is much lower than most areas.
7.5% —
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 18.8%
- 2021: 7.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.0% —
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 18.8%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
32.5% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 32.5%
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 Wylies Flat has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is a little below the national rate 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 Wylies Flat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14459/wylies-flat/topic/community