11.8% —
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 38.2%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Kerang East · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Kerang East
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people provide unpaid care in Kerang East than in the rest of the country. While 35.3% of residents perform unpaid care work, this far exceeds the national figure of 11.9%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is less common here than in most other areas, with 11.8% of people helping out, which is a little below the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common in this area, as 44.1% of people care for children and 29.4% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly; both figures are well above the state and national levels.
35.3% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 35.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
44.1% —
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 35.3%
- 2021: 44.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
29.4% —
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 29.4%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the Victorian rate of 2.0%.
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 Kerang East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21329/kerang-east/topic/community