20.6% ▼ -3.0%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.3%
- 2016: 26.4%
- 2021: 20.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Illowa · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Illowa
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Well above the national average for community contribution, Illowa is a place where people give a great deal of their time to others. This is most evident in the high number of residents who volunteer and provide unpaid care for family members.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 20.6% of people here volunteer, which is well above the Victoria figure of 13.3% and the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common in Illowa, with 30.4% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, far above the 20.1% seen in Victoria. This trend continues with unpaid care, as 31.6% look after children and 15.8% provide other forms of care, both well above national figures.
15.8% ▲ +90.2%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 15.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
31.6% ▲ +10.3%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.6%
- 2016: 28.4%
- 2021: 31.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.4% ▲ +9.0%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.9%
- 2016: 28.0%
- 2021: 30.4%
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 here than in most other areas, with 2.0% of people having served, a figure about the same as Victoria and Australia.
2.0%
Lower than 59% 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 Illowa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21228/illowa/topic/community