19.6% ▼ -20.8%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.8%
- 2016: 27.5%
- 2021: 19.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Newtown · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Newtown
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 20% of people in Newtown volunteer, making it a highly active community. This local commitment to helping others is far higher than the national figure of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 19.6% of residents volunteer their time, which is well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very common here, with 30.4% of people caring for children—a figure much higher than most areas. This is consistent with others providing unpaid care (15.4%) and those doing 15 or more hours of housework (24.5%), both of which are well above national figures.
15.4% ▲ +19.1%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 13.4%
- 2021: 15.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.4% ▼ -1.5%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.8%
- 2016: 30.9%
- 2021: 30.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.5% ▲ +1.5%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.1%
- 2016: 22.8%
- 2021: 24.5%
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 2.3%. This is about the same as the levels seen in Victoria and Australia.
2.3%
Lower than 57% 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 Newtown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21938/newtown/topic/community