20.6% ▼ -13.0%
Higher than 82% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 23.7%
- 2016: 24.9%
- 2021: 20.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Outer Regional Australia · Remoteness Area
Community Participation in Outer Regional Australia
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much higher rates of volunteering than most similar areas define Outer Regional Australia, where 20.6% of people give their time. While this is well above the national figure of 14.1%, the proportion of volunteers has fallen since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About one in five people volunteer here, which is 6.5 percentage points higher than the Australian average. This figure has dropped from 23.7% in 2011 to 20.6% in 2021.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
More people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework than in most areas, reaching 22.5%. Meanwhile, the 24.8% of people providing unpaid childcare is a little below the national figure of 26.3%.
11.0% ▲ +10.1%
Lower than 52% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 10.2%
- 2021: 11.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.8% ▼ -13.6%
Higher than 55% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 28.7%
- 2016: 26.5%
- 2021: 24.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.5% ▼ -14.2%
Higher than 70% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 26.3%
- 2016: 24.2%
- 2021: 22.5%
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 served in the Defence Force make up 3.1% of the population. This is 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 Outer Regional Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA52/outer-regional-australia/topic/community