17.3% ▼ -13.8%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.1%
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 17.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Yarrawarrah · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Yarrawarrah
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than 32% of people in Yarrawarrah provide unpaid child care, a figure well above the national average. This high level of caregiving is mirrored in other areas of community life, where residents are more likely to volunteer and handle domestic work than people in most other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 17.3% of residents giving their time, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 13.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Family and home duties are a major part of life for many, as 27.8% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly. This is well above the Australian figure of 20.7%, and is consistent with the 13.1% of residents providing other forms of unpaid care.
13.1% ▲ +0.6%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 14.0%
- 2021: 13.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
32.3% ▼ -2.9%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.3%
- 2016: 36.1%
- 2021: 32.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.8% ▲ +4.7%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.5%
- 2016: 25.3%
- 2021: 27.8%
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.
A small number of residents have served in the Defence Force, at 2.7%, which is about the same as the figures for both the state and the nation.
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 Yarrawarrah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14503/yarrawarrah/topic/community