16.8% ▼ -8.7%
Lower than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 18.4%
- 2016: 24.0%
- 2021: 16.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Waterview Heights · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Waterview Heights
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a quarter of people in Waterview Heights provide unpaid care for children, though this is down from 35.8% in 2011. The area sees high levels of community contribution and caregiving compared to both the state and national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.8% of residents volunteer, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 13.0%. This is slightly lower than the 18.4% recorded in 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very common here, with 16.8% of people providing care—a figure well above the national average. High levels of domestic work are also seen, as 29.0% of residents do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, which is well above the national figure of 20.7%.
16.8% ▲ +29.5%
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 16.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.3% ▼ -29.4%
Higher than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 35.8%
- 2016: 40.3%
- 2021: 25.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
29.0% ▼ -7.9%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 31.5%
- 2016: 29.7%
- 2021: 29.0%
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.
Defence service is more common in Waterview Heights than in most other areas. At 4.7%, the proportion of people who served in the Defence Force is a little above the national figure of 2.8%.
4.7%
Higher than 74% of urban centre 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 Waterview Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121119/waterview-heights/topic/community