26.4% ▼ -18.7%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 32.5%
- 2016: 23.5%
- 2021: 26.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Corryong · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Corryong
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A huge 26.4% of people in Corryong volunteer, which is far above the 13.3% seen across Victoria. This high level of community help is the standout feature of the area, even though volunteering rates have fallen slightly since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is much more common here than in most other areas, sitting 12 points above the national figure. However, the proportion of people giving their time fell from 32.5% in 2011 to 26.4% in 2021.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Fewer people provide unpaid childcare here than in most areas, at 19.0%, which is well below the state and national figures. Meanwhile, 13.6% of residents provide some form of unpaid care, a figure that is about the same as the Victorian average.
13.6% ▲ +6.6%
Higher than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 12.4%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.0% ▼ -17.7%
Lower than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.1%
- 2016: 25.3%
- 2021: 19.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.6% ▼ -20.4%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.3%
- 2016: 24.3%
- 2021: 22.6%
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.
About 3.6% of the population have served in the Defence Force. This is a little above the 2.0% recorded for Victoria and about the same as the national figure.
3.6%
Higher than 50% 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 Corryong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215027/corryong/topic/community