11.0% —
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 22.8%
- 2021: 11.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Dyraaba · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Dyraaba
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Dyraaba involves a high level of domestic work, though formal community involvement is low. While 27% of residents spend significant time on housework, only 11% of the population ever volunteers. This creates a picture of a place where much of the unpaid effort is focused on the home rather than the wider community.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 11% of people in Dyraaba volunteer, which is much lower than most similar areas and well below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
People doing 15 or more hours of unpaid housework each week are common here at 27%, a figure well above the national average. In contrast, those caring for children unpaid are much lower than most areas at 17%, which is well below the 26.3% seen across Australia.
11.0% —
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.6%
- 2021: 11.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.0% —
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 22.8%
- 2021: 17.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.0% —
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 34.2%
- 2021: 27.0%
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.
No one in Dyraaba has served in the Defence Force, a rate that is lower than most similar areas and a little below the national figure of 2.8%.
0.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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 Dyraaba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11342/dyraaba/topic/community