44.7% ▼ -6.3%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 47.7%
- 2016: 58.1%
- 2021: 44.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Harrow · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Harrow
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A massive 31 percentage point gap separates Harrow from the state and national averages in terms of volunteering. This is a place where community contribution is very high, with 44.7% of residents volunteering, one of the highest rates for areas of this type.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Nearly 45% of people in Harrow volunteer, which is far above the 13.3% seen in Victoria and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is less common here than in most areas, with 23.3% of people providing this care, well below the national figure of 26.3%. Meanwhile, 13.2% of residents provide some form of unpaid care, which is about the same as the state average.
13.2% ▲ +3.7%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 21.6%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.3% ▲ +8.3%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.5%
- 2016: 30.4%
- 2021: 23.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.0% ▼ -30.5%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.7%
- 2016: 29.7%
- 2021: 22.0%
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.
Defence service is less common than in most similar areas, with 1.9% of the population having served, a figure about the same as for Victoria and Australia.
1.9%
Lower than 60% 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 Harrow [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21143/harrow/topic/community