33.5% ▼ -19.9%
Higher than 99% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 41.9%
- 2016: 41.7%
- 2021: 33.5%
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.
Fewer people have volunteered in Remote Australia since 2011, but the area still sees a very high level of community effort. Roughly 33.5% of residents volunteer, which is far above the national figure of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 33.5% of people here volunteer, which is among the highest rates for similar areas and far above the Australian average. This is a drop of 8.4 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common, with 15.3% of people providing care and 28.6% doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, both well above national figures. However, the share of people caring for children unpaid is 18.4%, which is well below the Australian average of 26.3%.
15.3% ▲ +14.0%
Higher than 99% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 13.4%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 15.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
18.4% ▼ -22.0%
Lower than 72% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 23.6%
- 2016: 20.8%
- 2021: 18.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
28.6% ▼ -11.2%
Higher than 99% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 32.2%
- 2016: 29.1%
- 2021: 28.6%
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.
People who have served in the Defence Force make up 3.7% of the population, which is higher than most similar areas and slightly above the national figure of 2.8%.
3.7%
Higher than 74% 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/RA23/remote-australia/topic/community