20.8% ▼ -12.6%
Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.8%
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 20.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mooney Mooney · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Mooney Mooney
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people volunteer in Mooney Mooney than in most similar areas. While 20.8% of residents give their time to others, this is well above the national figure of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, though the share of people who do it has fallen by 3.0 percentage points since 2011 to 20.8%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
A high 30.4% of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, which is well above the New South Wales figure. In contrast, the share of people caring for children unpaid is much lower than most areas at 20.0%.
12.4% ▲ +25.1%
Lower than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 12.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.0% ▼ -21.7%
Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.5%
- 2016: 24.4%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.4% ▲ +16.1%
Higher than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.2%
- 2016: 24.9%
- 2021: 30.4%
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.
About 2.8% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the Australian average.
2.8%
Lower than 70% 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 Mooney Mooney [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122090/mooney-mooney/topic/community