8.1% ▼ -39.3%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 9.0%
- 2021: 8.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Yuendumu · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Yuendumu
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 46% of people provide unpaid child care in Yuendumu, a figure far above the national average. While child care is common, other forms of community work and volunteering are much lower than usual for the region.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 8.1% of people here volunteer, which is well below the 14.1% seen across both the Northern Territory and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid child care is very common at 45.9%, far above the national figure of 26.3%. In contrast, only 5.8% of people do 15 or more hours of housework, which is far below the Australian average of 20.7%.
12.0% ▼ -55.5%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.9%
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
45.9% ▼ -15.0%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 54.0%
- 2016: 55.9%
- 2021: 45.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
5.8% ▼ -71.3%
Lower than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.2%
- 2016: 22.3%
- 2021: 5.8%
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.
Defence service is less common here than in most areas, with 1.7% of people having served, which is well below the Northern Territory's 5.2%.
1.7%
Lower than 62% 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 Yuendumu [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70301/yuendumu/topic/community