20.0% ▼ -59.8%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 49.8%
- 2016: 39.4%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Hunter · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Hunter
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
High levels of local contribution define Hunter, where a quarter of the population provides unpaid care. This is far above the national figure, marking the area as one of the most active for community support among similar places.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
One in five people in Hunter volunteer, which is well above the 13.3% seen in Victoria and the 14.1% national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
A quarter of residents provide unpaid care, a figure far above the national average of 11.9%. While 25% also do 15 or more hours of housework, the proportion of people caring for children unpaid is far below the national figure of 26.3%.
25.0% ▲ +21.0%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.7%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 25.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
15.0% ▼ -52.0%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.3%
- 2016: 15.2%
- 2021: 15.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.0% ▼ -18.2%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.6%
- 2016: 9.1%
- 2021: 25.0%
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 Hunter has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the 2.8% typical across Australia.
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 Hunter [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21216/hunter/topic/community