21.6% ▼ -50.8%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.0%
- 2016: 42.1%
- 2021: 21.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Yambuk · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Yambuk
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Yambuk volunteer their time, which is well above the national figure. This high level of community involvement defines daily life in the area, where residents are far more likely to give their time to others than people in most other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 21.6% of residents volunteer, a figure that is well above both the Victorian rate of 13.3% and the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While far fewer people care for children unpaid compared to the national figure, 26.9% of residents spend 15 or more hours a week on unpaid housework. This is well above the national rate of 20.7%, alongside a slightly higher rate of people providing general unpaid care.
14.7% ▲ +17.6%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.5%
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.0% ▼ -53.7%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.2%
- 2016: 34.1%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.9% ▼ -13.8%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.3%
- 2016: 30.8%
- 2021: 26.9%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 2.8% of the population, which is about the same as the Australian average.
2.8%
Higher than 53% 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 Yambuk [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22896/yambuk/topic/community