19.0% ▼ -27.6%
Higher than 73% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 26.2%
- 2016: 24.8%
- 2021: 19.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Remote Australia · Remoteness Area
Community Participation in Remote Australia
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 20% of people in Remote Australia volunteer, a figure well above the national average. This highlights a strong culture of community contribution across these vast areas, even though the number of volunteers has fallen since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is more common here than in most areas, with 19.0% of people helping out compared to 14.1% nationally. However, this is a drop from 2011, when 26.2% of the population volunteered.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Fewer people provide unpaid childcare here than in most other areas, with 22.7% doing so compared to 26.3% across Australia. Unpaid housework and general caregiving are both around the national figures, though the proportion of people doing heavy housework fell to 19.2% since 2011.
10.9% ▼ -0.5%
Lower than 53% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 11.0%
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 10.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.7% ▼ -15.6%
Lower than 59% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 26.9%
- 2016: 24.3%
- 2021: 22.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.2% ▼ -22.9%
Lower than 56% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 24.8%
- 2016: 21.2%
- 2021: 19.2%
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.
Only 1.7% of residents have served in the Defence Force, which is much lower than most similar areas and a little below the Australian figure of 2.8%.
1.7%
Lower than 88% of remoteness area 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 Remote Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA13/remote-australia/topic/community