22.2% —
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 43.3%
- 2021: 22.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Yielima · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Yielima
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A striking 22.2% of people in Yielima volunteer, which is well above the national figure. This high level of community spirit is seen across the area, where residents are much more likely to provide unpaid care and housework than people in other parts of the state.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 22.2% of residents helping out, a figure well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very common, with 19.4% of people providing support, which is much higher than most areas. Similarly, 26.4% do 15 or more hours of housework a week, well above the national figure of 20.7%.
19.4% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.4%
- 2021: 19.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.4% —
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 25.4%
- 2021: 26.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.4% —
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 26.9%
- 2021: 26.4%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the national rate of 2.8%.
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 Yielima [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22933/yielima/topic/community