11.8% —
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 21.3%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Iveragh · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Iveragh
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people in Iveragh are taking on unpaid domestic roles than in most similar places. The area is marked by high levels of home-based care, though volunteering is much lower than in most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 11.8% of people volunteer here, which is much lower than most areas and a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common in Iveragh, with 35.3% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework, far above the 20.7% seen across Australia. This high level of domestic work is consistent with more people providing unpaid care (14.7%) and caring for children (28.4%) compared to the state average.
14.7% —
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
28.4% —
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 28.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
35.3% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 32.4%
- 2021: 35.3%
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.
A much higher share of residents have served in the Defence Force than in most areas, with 5.2% of the population having served, which is a little above the Australian figure of 2.8%.
5.2%
Higher than 82% 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 Iveragh [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31419/iveragh/topic/community