18.7% ▼ -12.8%
Higher than 71% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 21.4%
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 18.7%
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.
Volunteer rates in Remote Australia have dropped by 2.7 percentage points since 2011. Despite this decline, 18.7% of people still volunteer, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Nearly one in five people volunteer here, a rate higher than most areas and significantly above the national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While unpaid childcare is well below the national figure at 19.0%, more people do heavy housework and provide general unpaid care than in most other areas.
11.8% ▲ +25.5%
Higher than 64% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.0% ▼ -23.2%
Lower than 70% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 24.7%
- 2016: 22.4%
- 2021: 19.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.1% ▼ -9.6%
Higher than 86% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 26.7%
- 2016: 26.0%
- 2021: 24.1%
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.
Defence service is much more common here than in similar areas, with 4.3% of people having served in the Defence Force.
4.3%
Higher than 86% 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/RA63/remote-australia/topic/community