27.8% ▼ -28.3%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.8%
- 2016: 32.6%
- 2021: 27.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Noorat · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Noorat
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 28% of people in Noorat volunteer their time, which is far above the national figure. This high level of community involvement defines the area, where residents are much more likely to give their time to others than people in most other parts of Australia.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 27.8% of the population pitching in. This is 14 percentage points higher than both the Victorian and national averages.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is a big part of local life; 30.1% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, well above the national figure of 20.7%. While 15.4% provide unpaid care—which is much higher than most areas—only 22.6% care for children unpaid, a figure well below the national average.
15.4% ▲ +13.9%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.5%
- 2016: 14.4%
- 2021: 15.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.6% → 0.0%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.6%
- 2016: 25.3%
- 2021: 22.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.1% → 0.0%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.1%
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 30.1%
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.
Defence service is less common here than in most other areas. Only 1.5% of residents have served, which is about the same as the Victorian average but a little below the national rate of 2.8%.
1.5%
Lower than 63% 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 Noorat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21955/noorat/topic/community