14.0% ▼ -13.5%
Lower than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.2%
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mendooran · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Mendooran
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Fewer residents in Mendooran have provided unpaid childcare since 2011, though other forms of community support remain strong. While child caring plummeted by 13 percentage points, overall unpaid care has actually risen. This mix of shifting responsibilities defines how the small community supports its own.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14% of people volunteer here, which is a little above the New South Wales figure. This is a drop from 2011, when 16.2% of the population gave their time to volunteer work.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is far below the national figure at 14.9%, but 17.5% of people provide other types of unpaid care, which is well above the Australian average. Additionally, 24.1% of residents do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, a rate well above the national figure.
17.5% ▲ +17.1%
Higher than 92% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.0%
- 2016: 24.2%
- 2021: 17.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
14.9% ▼ -47.1%
Lower than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.2%
- 2016: 31.0%
- 2021: 14.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.1% ▼ -10.1%
Higher than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.8%
- 2016: 27.9%
- 2021: 24.1%
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.
Service in the Defence Force is much more common here than in most similar areas. At 5.6%, the proportion of veterans is well above the New South Wales figure of 2.3%.
5.6%
Higher than 85% 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 Mendooran [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122085/mendooran/topic/community