21.6% ▼ -40.7%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.5%
- 2016: 26.4%
- 2021: 21.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Newlyn North · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Newlyn North
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Well above the national average for community involvement, Newlyn North is a place where people give a great deal of their time to others. Over one in five residents volunteer, and the area has a notably high number of people providing unpaid care and former defence force members.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 21.6% of people helping out. This is well above the Victorian figure of 13.3% and the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much more common than in most areas, with 17.8% of residents providing support. Around 26.5% care for children, which is about the same as the national figure.
17.8% ▲ +40.9%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 17.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.5% ▼ -2.0%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.0%
- 2016: 30.2%
- 2021: 26.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.2% ▼ -27.6%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.6%
- 2016: 27.9%
- 2021: 22.2%
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.
Military service is more frequent here than in most places, with 5.9% of residents having served in the Defence Force. This is well above the 2.0% seen across Victoria.
5.9%
Higher than 86% 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 Newlyn North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21932/newlyn-north/topic/community