13.1% —
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 29.9%
- 2021: 13.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Yarrawa · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Yarrawa
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over a third of people in Yarrawa provide unpaid childcare, a figure far above the state and national averages. This level of family support is the most prominent feature of community life here, despite other types of participation being less common. Most residents do not serve in the military or volunteer their time.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is less common here than in most areas, with 13.1% of people helping out. This is about the same as the New South Wales figure of 13.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very common, with 16.7% of people providing care and 35.7% looking after children unpaid, both figures being well above the national average. Meanwhile, 22.6% do 15 or more hours of housework a week, which is a little above the national figure.
16.7% —
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
35.7% —
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 36.4%
- 2021: 35.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.6% —
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.4%
- 2021: 22.6%
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 the area has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the national figure 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 Yarrawa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14502/yarrawa/topic/community