22.6% —
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 32.7%
- 2021: 22.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Yarra · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Yarra
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Yarra give their time to help others, making it a place where community involvement is a big part of daily life. Local residents are much more likely to volunteer and provide unpaid care compared to the rest of the state and country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 22.6% of people helping out. This is well above the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very frequent in Yarra, with 33.0% of people caring for children and 27.0% spending 15 or more hours a week on housework. Both figures are well above the national and state averages, and 14.8% of residents provide some form of unpaid care.
14.8% —
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.6%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
33.0% —
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 27.2%
- 2021: 33.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.0% —
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.8%
- 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.
About 2.6% of the population has served in the Defence Force. This is about the same as the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
2.6%
Lower than 51% 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 Yarra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14486/yarra/topic/community