2.3% ▲ +78.3%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Hume · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Hume
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Very few people in Hume engage in unpaid community or domestic work compared to other areas. Only 2.3% of the population volunteer, which is far below the national figure of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering rates in Hume are among the lowest at this level, at just 2.3%. This is far below the 18.4% seen across the Australian Capital Territory.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very rare here, with only 0.8% of people caring for children and 0.8% doing 15 or more hours of housework. These figures are far below both the territory and national averages.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
0.8% ▲ —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 0.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
0.8% ▲ —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.8%
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.
No one in the area reported serving in the Defence Force. This is well below the 6% recorded for the Australian Capital Territory.
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 Hume [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80077/hume/topic/community