6.4% ▼ -52.8%
Lower than 96% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.6%
- 2016: 23.0%
- 2021: 6.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Whitton · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Whitton
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Only 6.4% of people volunteer in Whitton, a figure that is well below the national average. This shows a significant drop in local community involvement, with the volunteering rate falling 7.2 percentage points since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is among the lowest for areas of this size, sitting at 6.4% compared to the New South Wales figure of 13.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
About 23.5% of people provide unpaid childcare, while those doing 15 or more hours of housework fell to 20.3% since 2011. Unpaid care for others is also much lower than most areas at 9.6%.
9.6% ▼ -26.5%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.5% ▲ +0.8%
Lower than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.3%
- 2016: 20.8%
- 2021: 23.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.3% ▼ -28.9%
Lower than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.5%
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 20.3%
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.
A small number of residents have served in the Defence Force, at 2.9%, which is about the same as the national figure of 2.8%.
2.9%
Lower than 68% 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 Whitton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122149/whitton/topic/community