13.9% ▼ -18.0%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.0%
- 2016: 18.5%
- 2021: 13.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Rye · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Rye
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly a quarter of people in Rye do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework each week. This is a higher figure than the state and national averages, though a smaller proportion of the community provides unpaid care for children.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is less common here than in most other areas, with 13.9% of people helping out, which is about the same as the figures for Victoria and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While unpaid childcare is well below the national figure at 23.2%, the area has a higher rate of people providing general unpaid care than most other areas. This sits alongside 24.4% of residents doing significant housework, a figure well above the Victorian average.
13.8% ▲ +16.0%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 12.2%
- 2021: 13.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.2% ▼ -6.0%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.7%
- 2016: 26.3%
- 2021: 23.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.4% ▲ +1.4%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.0%
- 2016: 23.7%
- 2021: 24.4%
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.
About 3.2% of the community has served in the Defence Force, which is a little above the rate seen across Victoria.
3.2%
Higher than 59% 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 Rye [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22220/rye/topic/community