18.6% ▼ -21.5%
Higher than 71% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 23.7%
- 2016: 24.0%
- 2021: 18.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Very Remote Australia · Remoteness Area
Community Participation in Very Remote Australia
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 26% of people in Very Remote Australia provide unpaid childcare, marking the most common form of community contribution in these areas. While volunteering remains strong at 18.6%, it has fallen from 23.7% in 2011. This creates a unique profile where local support often centres on family care and community service.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is much more common here than in most other areas, with 18.6% of people helping out. This is well above the national figure of 14.1%, though it has fallen by 5.1 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is common at 25.9%, which is about the same as the national rate. However, other forms of unpaid work are much lower than most areas, including the 8.8% who provide general unpaid care and the 16.2% doing 15 or more hours of housework.
8.8% ▼ -4.0%
Lower than 73% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 8.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.9% ▼ -13.2%
Higher than 68% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 29.9%
- 2016: 28.3%
- 2021: 25.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
16.2% ▼ -20.6%
Lower than 70% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 20.4%
- 2016: 18.8%
- 2021: 16.2%
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.
About 3.1% of people have served in the Defence Force, which is around the middle for similar areas and about the same as the Australian average of 2.8%.
3.1%
Lower than 57% 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 Very Remote Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA34/very-remote-australia/topic/community