7.1% ▼ -66.4%
Lower than 97% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 21.2%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 7.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mount Druitt · State Electorate
Community Participation in Mount Druitt
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
About 26% of people in Mount Druitt provide unpaid childcare, making it the most common form of community contribution here. However, the area has seen a sharp drop in overall volunteering, which fell by 14 percentage points since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 7.1% of residents now volunteer, a figure that is well below the national average of 14.1% and among the lowest for similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care for children is around the middle for similar areas at 26%. Meanwhile, those spending 15 or more hours on housework (18.6%) and those providing general unpaid care (10.1%) are both lower than the national figures.
10.1% ▼ -8.0%
Lower than 81% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 11.0%
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 10.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.0% ▼ -10.8%
Lower than 57% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 29.1%
- 2016: 29.4%
- 2021: 26.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.6% ▼ -18.5%
Lower than 73% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 22.8%
- 2016: 18.3%
- 2021: 18.6%
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.
The proportion of people who served in the Defence Force is 0.9%, which is a little below the national figure of 2.8% and among the lowest for similar areas.
0.9%
Lower than 96% of state electorate 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 Mount Druitt [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10054/mount-druitt/topic/community