11.5% —
Lower than 85% of urban centre areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wyee Point · Urban Centre
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly a quarter of people in Wyee Point spend 15 or more hours a week on unpaid housework. This is a higher rate than the national figure, though other forms of community involvement are less common here.
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is uncommon in Wyee Point, with only 11.5% of people helping out. This is much lower than most similar areas and slightly below the New South Wales rate of 13.0%.
11.5% —
Lower than 85% of urban centre areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is well below the national figure at 17.7%, while 12.4% of people provide other types of unpaid care. This is about the same as the state and national rates.
12.4% —
Lower than 61% of urban centre areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.7% —
Lower than 83% of urban centre areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.8% —
Lower than 53% of urban centre areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did 15 hours or more of unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census.
People who served in the Australian Defence Force.
A higher than usual proportion of the community has served in the Defence Force. At 4.1%, this is a little above the 2.3% seen across New South Wales.
4.1%
Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who have ever served in the Australian Defence Force (currently or previously).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Community Participation in Wyee Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115164/wyee-point/topic/community