20.4% ▼ -29.4%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.9%
- 2016: 25.1%
- 2021: 20.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Koyuga · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Koyuga
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Koyuga volunteer their time, reflecting a community where local contribution is common. This spirit of helping out extends to the home, with very high rates of people providing unpaid care and housework compared to the rest of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 20.4% of residents are volunteers, a figure that is well above the state rate of 13.3% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common here; 34.8% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, which is far above the 20.1% seen across Victoria. This is consistent with high rates of unpaid care, including 30.8% of people caring for children.
15.8% ▼ -10.4%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.6%
- 2016: 15.8%
- 2021: 15.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.8% ▲ +2.5%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.1%
- 2016: 25.9%
- 2021: 30.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
34.8% ▲ +12.3%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.0%
- 2016: 30.5%
- 2021: 34.8%
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.
A small number of residents have served in the Defence Force, at 1.5%, which is lower than most similar areas and a little below the Australian average of 2.8%.
1.5%
Lower than 64% 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 Koyuga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21404/koyuga/topic/community