20.1% ▼ -24.8%
Higher than 91% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 26.7%
- 2016: 27.2%
- 2021: 20.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
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Community Participation in Not in any Significant Urban Area
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Volunteer rates have fallen since 2011, but 20.1% of people in Not in any Significant Urban Area (Vic.) still give their time. This is one of the highest rates for this type of area, sitting well above the national figure of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About one in five people volunteer here, which is well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria. This figure has dropped by 6.6 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common, with 25.4% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, well above the national figure of 20.7%. While those caring for children unpaid are a little below the national rate at 24.0%, the share of people providing other unpaid care has risen to 14.3%.
14.3% ▲ +13.2%
Higher than 87% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 12.6%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.0% ▼ -11.9%
Lower than 74% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 27.2%
- 2016: 25.8%
- 2021: 24.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.4% ▼ -7.5%
Higher than 93% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 27.5%
- 2016: 25.3%
- 2021: 25.4%
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.
People who have served in the Defence Force make up 3.4% of the population. This is a little above the 2.0% seen across Victoria and about the same as the national figure.
3.4%
Higher than 58% of urban area 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 Not in any Significant Urban Area [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2000/not-in-any-significant-urban-area/topic/community