13.6% ▼ -29.3%
Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.3%
- 2016: 20.8%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Drouin · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Drouin
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much higher rates of unpaid care define Drouin compared to most similar areas. While family support is a strong feature, a smaller share of the population now spends their spare time volunteering.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 13.6% of people in Drouin volunteer, which is lower than in most other areas. This is about the same as the national figure, but it represents a fall of 5.7 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Family support is common here, with 29.6% of people providing unpaid child care, a figure well above the national 26.3%. This helps explain why 14.3% of residents provide some form of unpaid care, which is higher than most areas.
14.3% ▲ +11.5%
Higher than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 12.4%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
29.6% ▲ +6.2%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.9%
- 2016: 29.8%
- 2021: 29.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.3% ▼ -14.9%
Lower than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.3%
- 2016: 23.3%
- 2021: 23.3%
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 small number of residents have served in the Defence Force, at 3.1%. This is lower than most similar areas, though it sits a little above the Victoria figure of 2.0%.
3.1%
Lower than 62% of urban centre 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 Drouin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL213004/drouin/topic/community