18.5% ▼ -30.2%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.5%
- 2016: 24.9%
- 2021: 18.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Yarram · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Yarram
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly one in five people in Yarram spend their spare time volunteering, reflecting a community with high levels of local engagement. This spirit of helping out is seen in the high number of residents providing unpaid care to others, though far fewer people here are caring for children compared to the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 18.5% of people volunteer in Yarram, which is well 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 care is common here, with 15.3% of people providing care—well above the 11.9% national figure. While 25.1% of residents do over 15 hours of unpaid housework weekly, only 17.4% care for children unpaid, which is much lower than most areas.
15.3% ▲ +43.3%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.7%
- 2016: 12.4%
- 2021: 15.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.4% ▼ -14.8%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.4%
- 2016: 21.2%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.1% ▼ -9.0%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.5%
- 2016: 24.5%
- 2021: 25.1%
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.
People who have served in the Defence Force make up 3.0% of the population, a figure that is a little above the Victorian average of 2.0%.
3.0%
Higher 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 Yarram [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22915/yarram/topic/community