27.7% ▼ -14.2%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.2%
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 27.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Nirranda · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Nirranda
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 28% of residents in Nirranda volunteer their time, a rate far above the national figure. This strong habit of helping out defines local life, even as the area has very few people who have served in the Defence Force.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 27.7% of people giving their time, which is far above both the Victorian figure of 13.3% and the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is a major part of life, as 38.3% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, far above the national figure of 20.7%. While 17% of residents provide some form of unpaid care, the proportion caring for children is well below the Victorian average at 19.1%.
17.0% ▲ +160.4%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.5%
- 2016: 17.3%
- 2021: 17.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.1% ▼ -27.7%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.5%
- 2016: 30.8%
- 2021: 19.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
38.3% ▲ +35.4%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.3%
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 38.3%
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 community has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is a little below the 2.8% seen across Australia.
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 Nirranda [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21949/nirranda/topic/community