11.2% ▼ -21.3%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.2%
- 2016: 16.3%
- 2021: 11.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Yarrawonga · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Yarrawonga
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly one quarter of residents in Yarrawonga perform unpaid housework or care for children. This community participation is largely defined by home-based work, while other forms of service and volunteering are less common.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 11.2% of people here volunteer, which is much lower than most similar areas and a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid housework is common here, with 24.5% of people doing 15 or more hours a week, a figure well above the national average of 20.7%. Meanwhile, 24% provide unpaid childcare, and 11.4% give other types of unpaid care, which is about the same as the rest of the country.
11.4% ▼ -9.0%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.6%
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 11.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.0% ▲ +33.8%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.9%
- 2016: 22.2%
- 2021: 24.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.5% ▼ -3.0%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.3%
- 2016: 25.7%
- 2021: 24.5%
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.
Defence service is less common in this area than in most others, with 1.6% of residents having served, which is a little below the Australian figure of 2.8%.
1.6%
Lower than 62% 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 Yarrawonga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14504/yarrawonga/topic/community